![]() ![]() Photo: AFPĮarlier this week, similar protests erupted in the capitols of Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia. One of the protesters in Texas makes his opinion clear. More than 20 million have filed for unemployment benefits in the past few weeks alone as closures of businesses and schools and severe travel restrictions to try to curb the virus's spread have hammered the US economy. ![]() Saturday ended another week in which millions of Americans went without pay cheques. Without federal aid, Murphy said, the state would see "historic" layoffs. The state's governor, Phil Murphy, said he had a "concerning" call with Senate minority leader and fellow Democrat Chuck Schumer, who told him there was no momentum right now in Congress to put "significant amounts or any amount" of funding into direct aid to states whose economies have been strangled by the pandemic. New Jersey reported another 231 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total there past 4000. In neighbouring New Jersey, some 40 percent of coronavirus deaths "are related in some way to long-term care" facilities, the state's health commissioner said. Still, some 2000 people were being hospitalised with Covid-19 every day, Cuomo said, and 36 of the latest New York deaths occurred at nursing homes, which have been ravaged by the pandemic nationwide. "If you look at the past three days, you could argue that we are past the plateau and we're starting to descend, which would be very good news," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said during his daily coronavirus briefing. The number of patients requiring intensive care and ventilators to help them breathe as the virus attacks their lungs was also down in New York. While that was down from 630 a day earlier, it still represented hundreds more families who lost a loved one to Covid-19, the highly contagious illness caused by the virus, in a single day in one state. New York, epicentre of the US epidemic, yesterday reported another 540 coronavirus-related deaths for the previous day, the lowest daily tally since 1 April. The order also doesn't allow any of those agencies to require proof of vaccination.Protesters ignore social distancing guidelines at a rally outside the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. On July 29, Abbott issued an executive order prohibiting schools, governments, and other jurisdictions from instituting mask mandates. last week, according to White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients. The two states accounted for one-third of all new cases in the U.S. The governor's remarks come a day after President Joe Biden criticized how Texas and Florida have handled the COVID-19 spike. ![]() He says that's the surest way to "end the pandemic." MORE POLITICS: Left wing complicates Pelosi's calculusĪbbott says the state will encourage everyone to implement the safest strategies to help slow the spread of COVID-19, including making sure everyone who wants the vaccine can get one. Everyone can voluntarily implement the mandates that are safest for them, their families, and their businesses." ".In Texas, there will not be any government-imposed shutdowns or mask mandates. ( Screengrab courtesy of Screengrab courtesy of thing we've learned along the way is lockdowns are wrong during the course of the pandemic," he says. ERCOT and Greg Abbott have, once again, found themselves in hot water with Texans. ![]()
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