Florida again broke its record for new Covid-19 cases recorded with 10,000 positive tests on Thursday, for a total of 169,106 cases identified in this southeastern state since the start of the pandemic.
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Given the scale of the health crisis, the county of Miami-Wade, the most populous in the country with nearly 2.7 million inhabitants, announced the wearing of the compulsory mask in public, except in places of worship . Republican governor Ron DeSantis, who had delayed proclaiming state containment when the epidemic spread to the United States in March, partly attributed the bad numbers to a " rigorous " test campaign .
" We will not go back to closing " the shops, he warned however on Wednesday. " I don't think the people who go to the shops are the ones who cause " these new infections, he added. Florida is facing a real explosion of the disease among young people who, thanks to the deconfinement operated since the beginning of June, have returned to the beaches and the nightlife.
Faced with these disturbing figures, Ron DeSantis announced that he would stop drinking alcohol in bars. " When you see young people, I think it is mainly social interactions " that are relaunching the coronavirus epidemic, he explained. As a sign that the situation has continued to deteriorate since Florida began its deconfinement process, the Jackson Health System, a large Miami hospital group, announced on Wednesday that it would suspend non-emergency surgical operations.
