Nearly every business in Georgia was free to reopen on Friday after being shut for weeks, in a move closely watched by the U.S. government and other states to see if the lifting of restrictions triggers a spike in coronavirus deaths.
) and Instacart Inc were staging protests and sick-outs in New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon and other states on Friday to demand a safer work environment and better pay during the outbreak.
“We need to reopen,” he said of the business his grandfather started in the 1940s. “We couldn’t stay alive with doors shut. We need that money stream or we fail.” Michael Knight, 57, owner of the vintage furniture and art store Kaboodle Home in East Atlanta Village, said he is not opening anytime soon.Kacey Cloues, owner of the Garden Hood, a garden center in Atlanta, said she has misgivings about relaxing the restrictions and for now only lets a maximum of five customers in at a time with just two staffers on the floor. “We’re allowed lots more. But it’s not safe,” she said.
Trump, who has sent conflicting messages on the pandemic for weeks, added to the pressure on state governors on Friday. In a Twitter message, he urged Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, to compromise with protesters who gathered at the state Capitol in Lansing on Thursday to decry her request to extend emergency powers to combat COVID-19.
All roads into the town of 22,000 people were to close and businesses shut nightly from 5 p.m. Gallup is the county seat of McKinley County, which forms part of the hard-hit Navajo Nation reservation. The county has 1,027 coronavirus cases, the highest of any in New Mexico, and 19 deaths.
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