HOUSTON (Reuters) – Florida and four other states posted daily highs for COVID-19 cases on Saturday, highlighting the worsening of the spread of the coronavirus in parts of the southern and western United States, prompting some officials to reverse their plans to reopen. The number of confirmed cases of the …
Read More »Cuomo initiates an investigation into a student who returned to New York from Florida with COVID-19
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s contact tracking team is desperately trying to locate people who have come into contact with a New York high school student who hired COVID-19 on a recent trip to Florida. The unidentified student allegedly infected four of his fellow Horace Greeley High School students in Westerchester County …
Read More »Drastic New Pandemic Measures for Texas and Florida Rattle Business Owners
HOUSTON / MIAMI (Reuters) – Bar and restaurant owners in Texas and Florida were furious on Friday after state officials abruptly opened new restrictions on their businesses due to a surge in new COVID-19 cases. FILE PHOTO: Agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission verify that the bars maintain social …
Read More »New US Coronavirus Cases Hit 45,242 for Largest Pandemic Rise in One Day
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) – The United States recorded 45,242 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the largest increase in the pandemic in a single day, according to a Reuters count, bringing the total number of Americans who tested positive to at least 2.48 million. The new record for positive testing …
Read More »‘We open too fast’: Texas becomes a model for Covid-19’s inadequate response | United States News
When Donald Trump welcomed Texas Governor Greg Abbott to the White House in May, the President of the United States praised his fellow Republican as “one of the great governors” and praised the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and predicted boom times in the future. “When you look at …
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