WATCH: Baker Declines To Give Mass. Reopening Details Before Report Release Monday

Gov. Charlie Baker pushed back on giving details on what businesses will be included in the first phase of Massaschusetts' reopening plan, scheduled to begin next week, during his daily press briefing on Wednesday.

Speaking at Stanley Street Treatment and Resources, a drive-through coronavirus testing site in Fall River, Mass., Baker emphasized his administration won't be releasing that guidance until it's ready.

"The main reason for that is I want this to be done in a deliberate way," he said. "And you don't do something in a deliberate way if you start leaking it out and issuing it out before you actually release the report."

A formal report from the state's reopening advisory board is scheduled to be released on Monday.

"I don't want the starting gun, so called, to go off today or tomorrow. I want it to go off on Monday. And I want it to go off (in) a targeted and phased way. Period," Baker said.

Although he wouldn't go into detail, Baker repeated the information he first gave this past Monday, that the first businesses that will be allowed to reopen are those that don't have a lot of close contact with customers or the kind that are able to socially distance in a relatively uncomplicated way.

"This is gonna require patience, and I understand that," he said. "But in the end, when we reopen, we're gonna want to be able to sustain that reopening over time as we continue to test and as we continue to hospitalize people who get sick. And as we continue to sort of battle and work to contain the virus through the contact tracing program and some of the other initiatives we're pursuing here. And that's gonna mean what I would refer to as sort of a slow roll out of the gate."

Baker emphasized that the state is still in the midst of the fight with the virus. But he said the state has one of the top per capita testing rates in the country.

"In fact, if Massachusetts was a country, we would be one of the highest testing per capita countries in the world," he said.

Baker said there is currently the lab capacity for about 30,000 tests per day.

He also referred to updated guidelines from the Department of Public Health released Tuesday that recommend all symptomatic individuals in the state should be tested, along with any close contacts.