Coronavirus Upends July 4th: Florida Closes Beaches, Mexico Blocks Border, And Much More

The U.S. saw 55,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday alone.

this weekend, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also signed an executive order Thursday to mandate masks in counties with 20 or more virus cases—a sharp reversal from his earlier stance on mask wearing. as that state urged residents to celebrate at home, adding, “we don’t want the same thing to happen over the Independence Day holiday.”beginning Friday, with beaches in Miami and several other Florida counties already closed.

Authorities in Mexico have decided to close the country’s Sonora border with Arizona—where new Covid-19 cases are surging at an alarming rate—this weekend, the, in order to prevent a flood of U.S. tourists headed to Mexican beaches for the holiday.

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