Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently announced that he will issue an executive order on how his state plans to re-open for business during the coronavirus pandemic.
The governor held a press conference on Friday, where Abbott said he would sign an executive order this week outlining how Texans can gradually and safely get back to business as usual.
Governor Abbott says reopening needs to be done ‘in a way that will be safe for that economic revitalization’
“Next week, I will be providing an executive order talking about what will be done in Texas about reopening Texas businesses,” Abbott said, emphasizing that these actions would be done “in a way that will be safe for that economic revitalization.”
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“We will focus on protecting lives while restoring livelihoods. We can, and we must do this,” Abbott continued. “With Texans helping Texans; with Americans helping Americans, we can conquer this coronavirus outbreak.”
“We’ve learned from past disasters that from suffering comes perseverance. From perseverance comes character. From character comes hope,” Abbott said. “And as we head into Easter weekend, I’m filled with hope knowing the character that Texans have shown in responding to the coronavirus in Texas.”
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“You can’t just open up all businesses all of the sudden, because if that were to happen we would see a rise in the coronavirus again,” Abbott told told local affiliate KVUE-TV. “So what we will be talking about next week is an executive order talking about how we’re going to go about this process of opening up business, and that must include the appropriate medical strategies to make sure that we are not going to be increasing the spread of the coronavirus.”
Abbott said Texas is coordinating with the White House on their plan to re-open Texas businesses. The governor stressed that it would be a gradual process without providing any additional details.
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Abbott Issued Stay Home Restrictions in March
Governor Abbott said the Lone Star State hasn’t yet reached the peak of COVID-19 and that flattening the curve in Texas will require people obeying stay-at-home restrictions. To date, Texas has over 12,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 254 deaths
Abbott issued an executive order on March 19 to “mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Texas.”
“Working together, we must defeat COVID-19 with the only tool that we have available to us — we must strangle its expansion by reducing the ways that we are currently transmitting it,” Abbott said at the time. “We are doing this now, today, so that we can get back to business as usual more quickly.”