With coronavirus cases surging across the US South and West, officials are once again imposing tough measures, from stay-at-home advice in ...
People eat in outdoor seating outside a restaurant before the city starts phase two of reopening after the lockdown due to the coronavirus disease , in the Manhattan borough of New York City, US, June 21, 2020. MIAMI: With coronavirus cases surging across the US South and West, officials are once again imposing tough measures, from stay-at-home advice in worst-hit states to quarantines to protect recovering areas like New York.
Three northeastern states that made progress beating back the pandemic - New York, New Jersey and Connecticut - on Wednesday urged visitors arriving from US hotspots to quarantine themselves. Daily case averages are being pushed to record levels in the region, even as former epicentres like New York and Detroit have seen their figures drop.
Governor Ron DeSantis said the state was experiencing"a real explosion in new cases among our younger demographics," and a spike in hospitalisations. DeSantis declined to order a state-wide mandatory masking policy as leaders in California and Washington state have done.In Texas, which was among the most aggressive states in reopening in early June after months of lockdown, new cases hit a daily high of 5,489 on Tuesday.
"It doesn't look like we are coming close to the top of the peak," Fisher told AFP."And we're definitely not coming down the other side of this yet."Its confirmed COVID-19 cases have more than quadrupled since the stay-at-home order expired on May 15, and people getting infected are younger and younger.
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