- Coronavirus Walmart Dallas. Announce temporary closure of a store after employees give positive to coronavirus
- Also Dallas has seen a spike in cases of COVID-19 this week
- Announce when it will reopen the shops
Coronavirus Wamart Dallas. Walmart announced that it is temporarily closing a store Neighborhood Market in Dallas, Texas, due to several employees of the store were positive for the coronavirus during the new spike of cases in the city.
The shop is located in the shopping center Casa View Shopping Center, in the streets Thomasson and Ferguson Road. The store closed Friday at 2:00 p.m., local time, and planned to reopen on Sunday after that “independent specialists” have disinfected the store, reported the spokeswoman for Walmart Anne Hatfield, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Hatfield declined to say how many employees were positive but said that it is “a small number”.
“While the Dallas area is experiencing a spike in cases of COVID-19, we are taking the proactive measure to temporarily close” the store, ” said Hatfield.
The shop 2275 Gus Thomasson Road will reopen at 7:00 in the morning of Sunday with shelves already stocked, he said.
The store will continue to make health check-ups and taking the temperature to their employees as they have done all the Walmart the last two months, said Hatfield. Store employees also should wear mask while working.
Despite the fact that it has closed stores in other markets, it is the first time in Dallas. The county of Dallas reported 392 new cases of the coronavirus and five deaths on Thursday, while the number of hospitalizations continues to increase. The number of new cases of Thursday, is the second largest county in one day. The Wednesday was the highest with 413.
The U.S. returns to exceed 30,000 cases a day of COVID-19 and sum 119,000 dead
The united states reached this Friday the figure of 2.219.119 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 119.086 deceased, in accordance with the separate count of the Johns Hopkins University.
This balance at 20.00 local time (00.00 GMT Saturday) is 31.243 infections more than the Thursday and 752 new deaths.
The united states does not exceeded the 30,000 new cases in a single day since the beginning of may, but the rebound in cases in states like California, Florida, Texas or Arizona has returned to shoot the overall.
New York remains the state hardest hit in the U.S. by the pandemic, with 386.556 confirmed cases and 31.015 deceased, a figure just below that of Brazil, the United Kingdom and Italy.
Only in New York city have died 22.236 people.
New York will continue to the neighboring New Jersey with 168.496 cases and 12.902 deceased, Massachusetts with 106.650 infections and 7.799 deaths and Illinois, which has been reported 135.470 positive for coronavirus and 6.580 dead.
Other states with a large number of deaths are Pennsylvania 6.399, Michigan with 6.067, California with 5.408 or Connecticut, with 4.238.
In terms of the infection, California has already surpassed New Jersey as the state with the second most cases, with 169.695.
And that is the focus of the pandemic in the U.S. has shifted now from the battered East Coast states of the Sun Belt, such as California, Florida, Texas and Arizona, which total between the four almost half of new cases in the whole country.
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