Miami-Dade County imposes 10 p.m. curfew and closes casinos and strip clubs ahead of July 4 weekend as COID-19 cases surge in Florida

• Miami-Dade County is imposing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew ahead of the July 4 weekend.
• The curfew, said Mayor Carlos Gimenez, "is meant to stop people from venturing out and hanging out with friends in groups, which has been shown to be spreading the virus rapidly."
• The county is also closing casinos, bowling alleys, and strip clubs.
• Earlier in the week, Dr. Mark Supino, a physician at Jackson Health System in Miami, told Business Insider that the uptick in coronavirus cases appeared linked to the policy of reopening.
• "When everything started to open up and ease up, then our volume picked up," Supino said.
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Miami-Dade County is closing casinos, bowling alleys, and strip clubs ahead of July 4, with Mayor Carlos Gimenez announcing Thursday that he will also be imposing a 10 pm curfew.

"I agree with my medical advisers that young people and their parents are not taking seriously the New Normal rules," Gimenez said in a July 2 statement. The curfew, which ends at 6 a.m., "is meant to stop people from venturing out and hanging out with friends in groups, which has been shown to be spreading the virus rapidly."

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