COVID-19: Texas and Florida put strict limits on bars, reversing reopening

File photo of a bartender pouring drinks for customers at a bar in Austin, Texas. LUBBOCK, Texas: As new coronavirus cases surged in Texas and Florida, officials in both states on Friday ordered bars to once again close down and imposed tighter restrictions on restaurants, in a setback to efforts to open up their economies during the pandemic.

The attempts by Texas, Florida, South Carolina and other states at a more complete economic reopening have boomeranged in a resurgence of cases that is changing the nature of the pandemic and likely to test the strength of any broader economic rebound in the United States. "As I said from the start, if the positivity rate rose above 10 per cent, the state of Texas would take further action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19," Abbott said. The percentage of tests resulting positive in Texas reached 12.7 earlier this week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Cuomo, a Democrat, told a briefing that states that followed guidance from the White House are now seeing a spike in cases, arguing that New York curbed the outbreak by taking what he called a scientific, rather than a political, approach."What's going on in this country is now frightening and revealing at the same time," Cuomo said."I say it is time to wake up, America, and look at the undeniable facts.

Also reporting record rises in cases this week were Alabama, Arizona, California, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming.In Texas, the governor on Friday also banned most outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people without approval. On Thursday, he suspended elective surgeries in the Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio areas to free up hospital bed space.

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