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At a news conference on May 5, Abbott indicated that his administration was emphasizing the state's COVID-19 positivity rate to evaluate the reopening of Texas businesses that formally began on May 1. [77] [109] Abbott considered a positivity rate exceeding 10 percent as a "red flag". In mid-April, the number of new cases began to stabilize and ...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Monday that he will allow the state's economy to reopen in stages beginning Friday, when his stay-at-home order expires."Now more than ever, Texans must remain ...
The governor of Texas hit the brakes on reopening his state Thursday as hospitals were inundated with “an explosion” of new COVID-19 cases and officials warned there might not be enough beds ...
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Abbott issued a stay-at-home order from April 2 to May 1, 2020. [254] [255] This was one of the shortest stay-at-home orders implemented by any governor. [255] After Texas started to reopen, COVID-19 surged, leading Abbott to pause the reopening. [255] On June 24, Texas broke its record of new COVID-19 cases in a ...
COVID-19 is a contagious respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. [4] Although the first reported cases were contemporaneously confirmed in the Wuhan, Hubei, China, on December 31, 2019, [5] a later study conducted by the Genetic Institute at the University College London indicate a possible origin as early as October 2019 via zoonosis. [6]
Abbott, who had pushed Texas' aggressive reopening of the state economy in May, had previously said the government could not order individuals to wear masks. Texas governor issues mask order to ...
Like many people in Texas who put their lives on pause in March as the coronavirus pandemic spread, Madeleine Graham had a decision to make last week. “For me it’s been a balance,” Graham said.