Political wrangling, controversy mark reopening of US states

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ATLANTA: Governors of about half a dozen US states pushed ahead on Tuesday (Apr 21) with plans to partially reopen for business despite warnings ...

“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with The Washington Post.Brian Kemp, Georgia's Republican governor, will allow gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys, tattoo and massage parlors to reopen on Friday, followed by movie houses and restaurants next week.

But the state also has one of the lowest testing rates, giving health officials less data on the reach of the illness to base decisions on reopening, the data showed. "That is an intelligent division of labour," Cuomo said at a press briefing."Let each level of government do what it does best."The governor said New York would try to double the number of people it tests each day - including diagnostic and antibody tests - to 40,000, characterizing the task as an"enormous undertaking" that would take weeks.

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