NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Nashville is easing some of its viral restrictions after locating a slowdown in COVID-19.
Mayor John Cooper announced Thursday that from September 1, venues will only be able to hold weddings, funerals and similar occasions with a third of their capacity or 125 people, depending on the lesser of the two.Places will have to stick to the rules of social distance and visitors will have to wear state masks, Cooper said in a video conference.Those who make plans on more important occasions may submit their plans to the Director of Public Health for review.
The so-called shipping and entertainment industry will be allowed to resume operations of its buses, trucks and tractors full of tourists with a limit of another 10 people, all of whom will have to belong to the same party, Cooper said.they will be able to develop their capacity to accommodate up to 25 more people outdoors and another 25 people inside.Seats can also resume at the bar with a social estrangement between the parties, the mayor said.
The rest of the regulations are accompanied by a “slow but stable advance” in the fight against the new coronavirus, Cooper said.The 14-day moving average went from 190.5 two weeks ago to 147.5 today, he said.Lately there are 1,864 active, instances in the city. This is the first time the number has been below 2000 since June.
Tennessee reported 1,826 new and 25 new deaths on Thursday, bringing the total number of deaths in COVID-19 to 1,673.
Some are asking Nashville to slow down the crowd of tourists who continue to gather in the Lower Broadway entertainment district.
Chelsea Crowell, granddaughter of musician Johnny Cash, has filed a petition on the site change.org which has collected more than 25,000 signatures.He says, in part, “The rest of Nashville is suffering the consequences of the crowds of tourists congregad downtown.We need to get back to the paintings and school safely, we need to open relief businesses safely (there are many that remain closed even though the bars of the center are still open as a food sales gap), and above all, we need our fitness to be a priority.
On Thursday, Democratic state rep. Bill Beck announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19.The Nashville legislature said it began to revel in symptoms shortly after the three-day legislative consultation was suspended on August 13.
“Unfortunately, staying is an effort by the organization and the General Assembly as a total did not stick to the medical recommendation to dress in a mask and social estrangement in Nashville for the special session,” Beck said in a statement.
A spokesman for House Speaker Cameron Sexton, a Republican from Crossville, responded that the GOP-dominated House of Representatives followed the CDC as cases of viruses.
GOP Speaker Doug Kufner said in a statement that he encouraged everyone to take public precautions to protect themselves from the virus.
To date, 15 legislative or legislators have tested positive for COVID-19 since May, according to Connie Ridley, Director of Legislative Administration.
Meanwhile, the state reported on Thursday 10,998 new task schedules for the week ending August 22.A total of 241,295 Tennessee residents claimed more than $72 million in unemployment budget last week, according to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Labor Development.
Most Tennessee counties had lower unemployment rates in July than last month, according to the department.Seventy-two of the state’s 95 counties experienced a decline.Pickett County had the lowest unemployment rate in the state in July at 6.3%.rate at 16.9%.
In other news about the viruses, the chancellor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where Plowman announced Wednesday that the school hit six student organizations on temporary suspension after reporting that they had organized demonstrations that did not adhere to school rules to prevent the spread of COVID.19.A spokeswoman later showed that the organizations were five fraternities and a women’s sorority.
Earlier this week, the school initiated a disciplinary process against 4 academics for similar crimes: three are accused of organizing off-campus demonstrations without social estrangement or masks; the fourth is accused of leaving isolation to meet others despite testing positive in an ad, Plowman said academics are at risk of “at least a school suspension and potentially more difficult sanctions.”
While many others who get coronavirus from mild to moderate symptoms can be fatal for the elderly and people with existing physical fitness problems.
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