A curfew was issued Sunday for El Paso County in Texas, where a surge in Covid-19 cases left hospitals and ICUs in the area at full capacity and required officials to seek additional morgue space.
El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego issued the curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting Sunday night for the next two weeks to help curb the rising rates."The purpose of the curfew is to limit mobility in the community," Samaniego said during a virtual press conference Sunday night, adding that the positivity rate and hospitalizations have exploded in recent weeks."Currently our hospitals are stretched to capacity," the judge explained.
Mayor Margo said that while there hasn't been one cause identified for the recent surge, many cases have been attributed to community spread and people letting their guard down."We did an analysis for two weeks on 2,404 cases from October 6 through October 20 and what we found is that 37% of our positives were from visiting large big-box stores, 22.5% were restaurants, and 19% were travel to Mexico," Margo said, adding that 10% were attributed to parties and reunions, 7.
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