“The number of cases of COVID-19 is growing across California. We are also seeing an increase in the number of cases in San Francisco ... As a result, we temporarily postpone the opening, which was scheduled for Monday (June 29. - RT ), ”she wrote on her Twitter.

According to her, on June 15, when the decision was made to open the city, 20 cases of coronavirus were detected, and the day before there were 103 cases.

“If this continues and we do not intervene, we will have such a number of cases (coronavirus disease. - RT ) that quarantine will be the only option,” she explained.

Earlier, Robert Redfield, director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the number of cases of COVID-19 in the United States could exceed 20 million.

In early June, US leader Donald Trump announced the US’s readiness to lift sanitary restrictions.