LONDON
UK overtakes Italy to record highest coronavirus death toll in Europe
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Tuesday that 29,427 people have died with Covid-19 since the outbreak began, more than in Italy and lower only than the United States. The official figure includes 693 new deaths in the most recent 24-hour period, up to 5 p.m. (12 p.m. ET) Monday.
Italy revised its death count up to 29,315 on Tuesday.
SoCAL - Riverside County
After hours of debate, Riverside County postpones vote to reopen amid coronavirus pandemic
After more than eight hours of debate Tuesday, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted to table its decision on whether to rescind the county’s public health orders and instead opted to wait until Gov. Gavin Newsom provides more guidelines later this week...
...Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who was welcomed to the microphone with cheers from the audience, said the county does not have the resources to enforce “unreasonable orders.”
“From the beginning, I told you I would not enforce the stay-at-home order partly because I trusted our residents’ ability to do the right thing without the fear of being arrested. I knew that they could be trusted to act as responsible adults and I was correct,” he said. “I refuse to make criminals out of business owners, single moms and otherwise healthy individuals who are exercising their constitutional rights.”...
...The latest changes to the Newsom’s four-stage plan to gradually reopen the state expand decision-making at the local level...counties must first submit “containment plans”... Riverside County has some of the strictest public health orders in the state [and] the second-highest number of infections, behind Los Angeles County...
Any other states requiring ‘containment plans’ for county reopenings? Seems like a good idea.