TALLAHASSEE, July 12 — Florida reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases of Covid-19 in a single day on Sunday as the growing outbreak forces state authorities to close some businesses and beaches. If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most new cases...
Physicians for Social Responsibility board members gathered outside the Florida Governor's Mansion demanding Gov. DeSantis mandate masks statewide Friday, July 10, 2020. — Reuters pic
If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most new cases a day behind the United States, Brazil and India. To combat the outbreak, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered bars to close but has resisted calls for a statewide mandate to wear masks in public. It is also a political battleground state that President Donald Trump won by just 1.2 percentage points in 2016. Its economic reliance on tourism and its large elderly population have made it especially vulnerable to the Covid-19 crisis.
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