Several beaches throughout Florida are closed for the Fourth of July weekend because of to coronavirus problems. Having said that, which is not the circumstance yet for citizens of St. Petersburg who have obtain to seashores in driving distance in their county.
Mayor Rick Kriseman says he thinks that it’s a policy that the county has to take into account.
“I think it is a coverage [the county officials] have obtained to contemplate as we come up to July 4 weekend. We know it is really constantly a busy time at our beaches that weekend.”
Kriseman also criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for not implementing statewide guidelines at this time to overcome the surge in circumstances, and instead, leaving it up to the area governments to acquire action on a variety of issues this sort of as beach closures and putting on masks.
“This should be a statewide coverage, but we don’t have the leadership right now from the administration and the governor’s place of work,” he mentioned. “If we’re likely to get a handle on this, we require to be acting collectively, not just piece-food, the place particular person neighborhood governments are putting policies in place.”
In further criticism, Kriseman claimed that DeSantis has been “very inaccessible” to mayors throughout Florida, which is an impediment to statewide motion from the virus.
“That’s one of the frustrations that myself and other mayors close to the state have experienced. The governor has been really inaccessible to all of us, so we haven’t had those conversations. I’ve undoubtedly been really vocal about the point that I feel it works finest when it truly is statewide policy and if we are unable to have that then countywide plan and if we can’t have that then individual cities,” he mentioned. “But it seriously should come down from the point out.”
Kriseman also dismissed DeSantis’ claims that the surge in circumstances is partly thanks to a backlog in assessments.
“That explanation is seriously quite frankly silly. What we glance at is the percentage of positive tests. So we’ve had days in which possibly we’ll have 1,500 tests that are completed. Other days where we will have 3,500 checks that are carried out, but what definitely matters is what are those percentages of people tests that are being accomplished that are coming back again favourable,” he spelled out.
St. Petersburg, Florida, was observing a proportion of 1.5% to 2% good situations on a two-week rolling basis in late April and early Could. In the previous two months, the rolling ordinary has risen to 10%, he mentioned.
“That is very disconcerting, and the clarification isn’t the number of checks. It’s that much more men and women are exposed appropriate now.”
