Dallas County in Texas reported its highest single-day increase of coronavirus cases on Friday — the same day the state's governor reopened stores, restaurants, and movie theaters at a limited capacity: 'Our highest three days have all been this week.'
Three hours south, in the home county of Austin, the state capital, the number of reported cases has continued to grow each day since testing for the coronavirus began in March.
"Everybody is scared," Austin Mayor Steve Adler, a Democrat, told MSNBC on Thursday."Obviously the economy is hurting and people are looking to see what happens next, but no one knows what's going to happen with the governor's actions."Adler said he wished that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had waited another week or two to reopen to allow further expansion of testing and contact tracing programs first.
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