Miami.- A crowd of tourists less numerous than that of the previous week gathered in Miami Beach this Thursday to drink, listen to music and dance in the street, but unlike last Saturday they withdrew peacefully when the police informed them that the curfew was had started.
The police appeared on the Ocean Drive pedestrian street after eight in the afternoon.
After informing the participants in the street party that they should leave, they left the place without incident until it was deserted.
The city neighboring Miami was on alert for the approach of a new weekend and the risk that the masses of spring tourists would once again disturb public order and defy the norms against COVID-19 in a state that tries to avoid a rebound in the pandemic with more vaccines.
To avoid incidents, the Miami Beach authorities decreed a curfew last Saturday that works on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 8 at night to 6 in the morning.
On Saturday the crowd did not comply with orders to withdraw and clashed with the police, who harshly repressed tourists and detained more than fifty.
In addition to the curfew, there is a ban on access to the island of Miami Beach on the same days and hours by three bridges that connect it with Miami, except for those who are not residents, work or are staying in hotels.
According to information from the local media, most of those concentrated in an area in the south of the city and bordering the beach that the authorities have classified as “high impact” arrive in South Florida on cheap flights and are not staying in Miami Beach, where hotels tend to be more expensive, hence the closure of the entrances at night.
This Thursday the governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis, announced that starting on April 5, all residents over 18 years of age will be able to get vaccinated against covid-19.
Before, on Monday, March 29, it will be the turn of those over 40 years of age, so that in two weeks only minors will be without access to the vaccine.
To date, almost 5 million people (4.95 million) have received one or two doses of the covid-19 vaccines in the “Sunshine State”, according to the website that monitors the vaccination campaign, whose most notable result is a drop in the number of daily deaths from covid-19.
From 77 deaths of residents (in this state they count non-residents separately) recorded on March 1, it went to two on March 23, according to official data.
However, the daily new cases are around 5,000 and the covid-19 tests show a positivity of around 6%, without a significant drop in both indicators.
The age group of 25 to 34 years is the one that accumulates the most infections since the beginning of the pandemic (350,316) in this state, which is the third with the most cases in total (more than 2.01 million), according to Johns University Hopkins.
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