Original Title: The Governor of Texas, the United States, announced the full resumption of work and revoked the “mask order”
(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The Governor of Texas, the United States, announced the full resumption of work and revoked the “mask order”
China News Agency, Houston, March 2. The governor of Texas announced on the 2nd that the state will fully resume work on March 10 and revoke the “mask order” and restaurant traffic restrictions and other epidemic prevention orders.
Texas Governor Abbott said on the 2nd that with the speeding up of vaccination in Texas and the reduction of critical new coronary pneumonia cases, the state no longer needs the state government to enforce epidemic prevention orders. Abbott also said that this does not mean exempting individuals from responsibilities, and companies and individuals still need to be vigilant to avoid contracting the new crown virus.
According to the Associated Press, the governments of Texas, Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana, and San Francisco revoked epidemic prevention orders to varying degrees on the 2nd. Among them, Texas is the state that has revoked the epidemic prevention order most thoroughly, which has aroused widespread concern.
According to the “Houston Chronicle” report, the mayor of Houston, Texas, and the Harris County Sheriff have written to urge the governor not to revoke the statewide “mask order.” The letter stated that if such preventive measures are not widely adopted, public safety will be endangered.
U.S. Rep. Castro stated in a statement on the 2nd that in order to establish a positive political influence after the large-scale power outage in Texas, Governor Abbott revoked the “mask order”, which puts public safety in the first place. To ignore it is “reckless and dangerous behavior.”
Fischer, an epidemiologist at Texas A&M University, questioned, “Why is the’mask order’ cancelled at this stage? Aerosols and droplets are the main modes of transmission of the new coronavirus. Masks are one of our rare prevention tools.”
Hulfman, director of public affairs for the Texas retailer HEB, said in a statement that day that it is very important for Texans to wear masks in public places before more people are vaccinated against the new crown.
Dassault, a physician at the University of Texas Medical Department, said that this order was a huge blow to the anger of doctors and nurses, “I can only say that I can’t understand it.”
According to CDC data, as of the 2nd, nearly 20% of adults in the United States have received at least one shot of vaccine, and about 10% of adults have completed two shots of vaccinations; Texas has a population of about 29 million, and currently nearly 2 million people Completed two doses of vaccinations, one of the states with the lowest percentage of vaccinated people in the United States.
In addition, according to ABC Channel 13, a study by Houston Methodist Hospital showed that at least five mutated new coronaviruses have emerged in Houston, including those found in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa, California, and New York. These variants are more infectious than the original strains.
The Associated Press stated that in the year since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in the United States, people have become tired of epidemic prevention measures. Warrensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently urged the public to adhere to the epidemic prevention measures, otherwise, the hard-won progress in epidemic prevention will be lost. The epidemic data released by the CDC showed that on February 28, there were 50,505 newly confirmed cases in the United States in a single day, which was the lowest record since mid-October last year. (Finish)Return to Sohu to see more
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