California drinking places will not reopen until the end of the month.
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The governor of Michigan, in the north of the country, has also announced the closure of a large number of bars, established as being at the origin of recent outbreaks
, while Oregon and Pennsylvania joined the ranks of the states making it mandatory to wear the mask in public.
Symbolic marker of the resumption of the epidemic, Apple told AFP temporarily close to thirty stores in the country, half of them in California.
It is clear that there are places in California where people do not feel concerned by the current situation. We don’t see anyone wearing a mask, anyone practicing social distancing
, a Los Angeles resident, Ben Smith, who came to be tested, told AFP.
For the fourth day in a row, more than 2,000 new cases have been reported in Los Angeles County and health officials have said that immediate action was needed
to stem the phenomenon.
For the long holiday weekend ahead, Los Angeles and other counties have canceled their fireworks and closed their beaches, as has the city of Galveston in Texas.
Texas, which last week ordered all bars closed, had more than 8,000 new cases in 24 hours on Wednesday, a record for the second day in a row.
Some beaches in Florida, where the tourist season is in full swing, have also been closed in an attempt to curb this new peak of contamination, and municipalities have stepped up health protection measures. In Miami-Dade County, volunteers go door-to-door to distribute masks, gloves and hydroalcoholic gel while telling residents about the importance of barrier gestures.
In Miami, authorities decided on Tuesday to close businesses that do not comply with sanitary measures for 30 days. And most of the events planned in Florida for Independence Day have been canceled. For those who remain organized, the authorities have asked spectators to attend from their car.
New York pauses deconfinement
Same observation in New York, where the mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that the restaurants could not reopen their rooms, as planned in the municipal strategy of deconfinement.
We are all concerned that eating inside a restaurant has become a problem
, he explained during a press briefing.
Even last week, I had hope, but information from across the country is getting worse and worse
, said the Democratic mayor.
New York State, which has long been the epicenter of the American epidemic and where it has been ebbing for several weeks, has also put in place strict measures to protect itself by ordering quarantine for visitors from 16 states , or almost half of the American population.
Department store chain Macy’s announced the organization surprise
several five-minute pyrotechnic shows throughout the week, to avoid crowds of spectators.
The Trumps will celebrate in Dakota
On July 3, President Donald Trump plans to attend fireworks with Mount Rushmore, a tourist attraction in South Dakota, where the heads of former presidents were cut from granite, with his wife Melania.
With an additional 1,199 deaths from the new coronavirus in 24 hours, the daily report in the United States started to rise again on Tuesday. The number of daily deaths had remained below 1000 since June 10.
Nearly 128,000 people died from COVID-19 on American soil, the most bereaved country in the world in absolute terms.
The country also has for several days more than 40,000 new daily infections of COVID-19. On Wednesday, the country announced more than 50,000 new infections, a record since the start of the pandemic.
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