Authorities closed four days all the beaches Miami due to a surge of infections with coronavirus

The County is Miami-Dade County (Florida) for four days, will close all the beaches in order to stop the increasing number of infections with the new coronavirus. This was announced on Saturday in his Twitter County mayor Carlos Gimenez.

“I, after consultation with experts in the field of public health on Saturday signed the emergency decree on the closure of all beaches in the Miami-Dade County Friday, July 3, to Tuesday, July 7,” he wrote. “Growth continues the positive results [of tests] on the COVID-19 with the young people and the increase in the number of hospitalizations, so I decided that the only wise move is to attempt to knock down the surge and stop of recreational activities, endangering the life of our community, “added the mayor.

He ordered all County residents to wear masks in public places and to keep a safe distance of approximately two meters. The mayor also limited the maximum number of people gathering in one place: no more than 50 people. The measure is primarily concerned with parades and festive fireworks before and during the US independence Day on 4 July.

In the US there is a new surge in the number of cases of infection with the novel coronavirus. On Thursday, the figure was 40 870 cases, and on Friday exceeded 45 thousand Record rate of infection recorded this week, including in the States of Idaho, Alabama, Arizona, Wyoming, Georgia, California, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Florida and South Carolina.

According to the Johns Hopkins University, which conducts calculations on the basis of information Federal and local authorities in the US were more of 2.46 million cases of infection with coronavirus, had died more than 125 thousand people.