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May 24, 2020 1 min, 48 secs

Health officials were urging caution over Memorial Day weekend as millions of Americans were beginning to emerge from stay-at-home orders.

Health officials were urging caution over Memorial Day weekend as millions of Americans were beginning to emerge from stay-at-home orders and get together with friends and family.

A Missouri hairstylist served 84 clients over eight days while experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus, and now a coworker is sick, health officials said.

The Springfield-Greene County Health Department announced in a Facebook post Saturday that 56 other Great Clips clients were potentially exposed by the second stylist.

The announcement came one day after the health department’s director, Clay Goddard, said in a news briefing that the first stylist to get sick worked eight days from May 12 to May 20, with only the 18th off.

The owner of the Great Clips said in a statement that the salon will be closed until it goes through sanitizing and deep cleaning.

The two cases come just days after city officials announced plans to relax even more distancing requirements and about a week after the health department started seeing an influx of new travel-related infections.

"Professional sporting events provide much needed economic benefits, but equally important, they provide community pride and national unity," Wolf said in a press release.

The order applies to Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the Women’s National Basketball Association, the Professional Golfers’ Association Tour, the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, the National Hockey League, the Association of Tennis Professionals, and the Women's Tennis Association.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday that the country would be open to international tourism starting in July, Madrid-based newspaper El Pais and Reuters reported.

"Spain needs tourism and tourism needs security," Sanchez said.

"I think the pandemic is the world’s way of saying to mankind, you’re not in charge," he said.

The woman who raised questions about Florida’s COVID-19 data after being ousted as the data’s curator had been reprimanded several times and ultimately fired for violating Health Department policy by making public remarks about the information, state records show.

State health officials strenuously deny any issue with the information’s accuracy as Gov

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