Filled with students, Miami city hits emergency brakes

Miami Beach on Saturday declared a state of emergency over concern about a large number of spring breakers gathering in the cityThe new measures are lsquoessentially purposed to reduce the number of peoplersquo coming to the area to combat Covid19 said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber during a news conference on Saturday reported The HillHe also announced an 8 pm curfew in the Entertainment District and a restriction of eastbound traffic on city causeways which will be available only to residents and hotel guestsThe measures went into effect at 9 pm ET 630 am IST on Saturday local time and will remain for 72 hoursMeanwhile Gelber said he will hold an emergency meeting with the City Commission to address the measures to check the potential surge in COVID19 cases The Hill reportedMiami Beachrsquos interim City Manager Raul Aguila said Saturday that hersquos received emails from businesses that have voluntarily closed or donrsquot want to open due to the crowdsldquoAs we hit the peak ndash at the peak of spring break we are quite simply overwhelmed in the entertainment districthellip Folks this is not an easy decision to make we are doing that to protect the public health and safetyrdquo said AguilaLast week the police had to disperse a crowd of about 200 ldquounrulyrdquo spring breakers who had surrounded an intersection with pepper ballsThe Miami Beach Police Department said at the time that several people were detained and two officers were injuredAs of Saturday morning there have been at least 1999249 cases and 32650 deaths in Florida since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago according to a New York Times database Over the past week there has been an average of 4485 cases per day it reportedIsrael revokes curb on travel quotasThe Israeli government has cancelled the daily limit of 3000 passengers entering the country while approving the new regulations on arrivals and departures from BenGurion Airport during the COVID19 pandemic Starting Saturday at midnight there are no longer restrictions on the number of people allowed to enter the country while discontinuing the entry quotas system the Jerusalem Post reportedProtesters clash with German copsAs over 20000 people took to the streets to oppose the antipandemic lockdown protesters attacked several members of Germanyrsquos security forces in Kassel according to authorities Violent clashes between various groups of protesters were also reported according to DW ldquoWe will not tolerate such attacks This is not what peaceful protests look likerdquo the local police said on Twitter513797No of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours122964412Total no of cases worldwide2712137Total no of deaths worldwideSource WHOJohns HopkinsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever