WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The variety of validated U.S. coronavirus cases topped 1 million on Tuesday while Florida’s governor met President Donald Trump to talk about signing up with other states that have transferred to relieve constraints in the face of an economy battered by the pandemic.
Governor Ron DeSantis went to the White House on a day when his state revealed its greatest single-day death toll from the coronavirus and 2 days prior to Florida’s state-at-home order is because of expire. His state has not been hit as hard as some other states including New york city, the U.S. center of the pandemic.
” I mean, you go from D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois – you name it – Florida’s done better,” DeSantis stated throughout a conference with Trump, a fellow Republican.
” And I’m not slamming those states, but everyone in the media was stating Florida was going to resemble New York City or Italy, which has not taken place since we understood we have a big, diverse state,” DeSantis included, promoting “a customized and measured approach” that “did less damage to our state moving forward.”
About a dozen states were transferring to restart their economies in spite of a lack of massive virus testing. Public health specialists have actually alerted that a premature rollback of social-distancing policies could trigger a rise in brand-new infections.
While the pandemic has actually not affected Florida as much as some other states, authorities reported 83 brand-new deaths and more than 700 brand-new infections. The state has reported 1,171 COVID-19 deaths and 32,846 overall cases.
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