Mayors in major cities, like San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin have enacted emergency mandates requiring residents to wear facemasks in public places or face a possible fine of $1,000.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott's announced Friday that the state would begin slowly reopening the economy this week, but all the state's major cities are still requiring the use of face masks in public places.
"When most people think about masks, they think that they're protecting themselves from other people. But there's more science to show that it protects other people from you," Dr. Junda Woo, medical director with Metro Health, said in aSan Antonio, which has just over 1,000 recorded coronavirus cases, began enforcing the face mask order on Monday. Nirenberg said anyone found violating the order could be fined up to $1,000.
"It just doesn't feel like it's America when you have to do these things," David Finn said in a CBS-11 report. Austin became the first major city in Texas to enact an emergency face mask ordinance, but it was Laredo, located on the Texas-Mexico border, which was among the first cities in the U.S. to mandate face coverings when they community enacted its emergency order on March 31.
As of April 21, Houston had 4,997 confirmed cases of coronavirus—the most in the state. Harris County has seen nearly 80 lives so far from the virus, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
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