Over the weekend, Texas saw its highest single-day number of confirmed COVID-19 cases — more than 1,800 — since the start of the outbreak. More than 700 of those cases were in Amarillo, a spike that officials link to increased testing.
to Amarillo to provide testing and personal protective equipment to plant workers.
Texas hasn't met Abbott's goal to test 30,000 per day. Still, the Republican governor has begun to lift restrictions on restaurants, movie theaters, salons and gyms. Abbott has postponed the phased re-openings in Potter and Randall Counties, over which the city of Amarillo stretches."I think it's important for us to be open as quickly as we can be, but only if we can safely do it," she said."Some additional testing does help us track where the disease is spreading.
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