Some states are starting to relax stay-at-home orders, as others brace for the virus to hit its peak. From Florida to Texas, a few select parks are reopening or will be reopened soon, but carefully, Michael George reports for CBS.
“We still have to be cognizant of the six-foot distance between people, the ten people gathering,” said Charlie Latham, the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, where some beaches reopened on Friday.
In Minnesota, golf courses will reopen. But right-wing protesters there weren’t impressed. They want the state’s Democratic governor to list all stay-at-home orders.
President Trump claims sufficient testing capacity has been built to allow states to reopen. But some public health experts dispute that and say the country is still not ready to track and control the spread of COVID-19.
Governors in many states are standing up against the pressure to ease their orders, as deaths and cases continue to rise.
“It’s not over. We’ve a lot more to do,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
“The last thing we can do is relax,” said New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.
In Virgina, Governor Ralph Northam reported 600 new cases on Friday – an 8% single-day rise.
‘We’re still seeing more cases each day. Not Fewer,” he said. “So we are not there yet.”
In San Francisco, the first city to shut down, the mayor on Friday ordered masks to be worn in public for the foreseeable future.
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