Washington – The mayor of Orange county, Jerry Demings, ordered the citizens to the use of masks starting tomorrow, Saturday, in the midst of the increase in cases of coronavirus in the state of Florida.
“The executive order is in the best interest of all businesses, especially the bars and restaurants. We do not want to experience another closure within our community,” said Demings, whose county includes Orlando.
Although deaths daily by coronavirus reported by the Florida Department of Health have been reduced, the number of positive cases in the state has doubled in the last few days.
Between the 12 and the 18 of June, the new cases are confirmed coronavirus were around usd 17,500. The previous seven days were about 8,100, according to the data published by the state Department of Health.
Only on Thursday, the total number of positive cases reached 3,800, the highest number since the start of the pandemic coronavirus.
In recent days, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has faced criticism for having attributed the increase in cases of coronavirus in your state to migrant farm workers, primarily hispanic, who believes they are going to perform their tasks “like sardines”.
The republican DeSantis – reluctant to order the citizens the use of masks, has been on the defensive this week by the sudden increase in cases of coronavirus in Florida, where more than a million puerto ricans and it has been corroborated by almost 90,000 positive cases of the virus and 3,100 deaths.
The talk on Tuesday of the increase in cases of coronavirus in your state, DeSantis attributed to migrant workers agricultural, “overwhelmingly hispanic”, the spread of the virus in your state.
“Some are going to work on a school bus, and they are all packed in there like sardines, crossing the county of Palm Beach or in some of these other places, and there are all these opportunities for transmission to occur (of the virus),” said DeSantis on Tuesday in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida.
Today, the governor DeSantis argued that the increase is not alarming, because the majority of those newly infected are young people, with less risk to suffer serious consequences.
De Santis has insisted that the increase in tests for detecting the virus causes the increase in cases and ruled out to take back the measures that have allowed it to reopen the economy.
When the governor alleged that they were migrant workers, the biggest spreaders of the virus, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Florida lorefutó.
“As the governor continues to re-opening prematurely Florida, we are seeing increases in the positive cases and hospitalizations by COVID-19…Many areas where cases are increasing are found in counties not agricultural, such as Broward, Duval and Hillsborough”, said Franco Ripple, a spokesman for the Department of Agriculture.
The commissioner of Agriculture, Nikki Fried, said that many of the migrant workers as they ended their day in the state.
According to the station WSVN, the number of available beds in units for patients in the intensive has been reduced in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, while they have increased hospitalizations in the county of Miami-Dade.
“We don’t have a shortage of beds,” he said, for his part, the Miami-Dade county mayor, Carlos Gimenez.
Meanwhile, Antonio Tovar, executive director of the Association of Agricultural Workers in Florida, said the Florida governor failed to distribute in time of personal protective equipment, despite the fact that they sent a letter two months ago.
In the united States, the total number of positive cases exceeds the 2.2 million deaths 118,000. The model of the University of Washington, which has been used by the White House projected that the total deaths will reach the 201,000 for the 1 of October.
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