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Florida's Miami-Dade County to use nightly curfew to fight growing coronavirus cases - NBC News
Jul 03, 2020 44 secs

In an attempt to curb the rising number of coronavirus cases in southern Florida, Miami-Dade County will impose a curfew beginning at 10 p.m.

Miami Beach, which is in Miami-Dade County, on Wednesday announced a citywide curfew from 12:30 a.m.

On Thursday, the Florida Department of Health announced 10,109 new cases of COVID-19, as well as 67 additional deaths.

Miami-Dade County has had more than 40,000 cases of COVID-19, the most in the state, with more than 1,000 deaths, according to state health department numbers.

Overall, Florida has had more than 169,100 cases and 3,617 deaths, according to the state health department.

On Thursday, the governor of Texas, whose state is among others seeing an increase in coronavirus cases, reversed course and issued a statewide mask order.

More than 2.7 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the United States, with more than 129,600 deaths linked to the disease, according to NBC News' count

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