American cities and states take action in the face of health disaster

Disinfection of a classroom in Arnold, Missouri, November 5, 2020. Colter Peterson / St.

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144,000 new cases of coronavirus detected in 24 hours, 65,000 people hospitalized: the pandemic continues to break records in the United States.

Faced with this upsurge, local authorities are imposing health precautionary measures.

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With our correspondent in Washington,

Anne Corpet

New restrictions are beginning to be decreed at the local level, in the absence of instructions from Donald Trump's federal government.

Stay home to save lives,

” the governor of Wisconsin asked his constituents.

Like him, more than a third of the chief executives of the American states, Democrats and Republicans, have imposed restrictive measures in an attempt to curb the pandemic.

The mayor of Chicago has banned gatherings of more than ten people from Monday morning.

I am more worried today than I have ever been since the start of the pandemic,

 " said Lory Lighfoot, imploring the population to remain confined.

Public schools in the city of Detroit, Michigan announced Thursday that they are switching to distance education until January.

The number of hospitalizations has reached a record and fears of an overflow of care establishments are resurfacing.

In Texas, the governor has asked military medical facilities to accept civilian patients.

This state was the first to report more than a million people infected with the virus.

California took the same step on Thursday.

Finally, the largest American city, New York, forces its bars and restaurants to close at 10 p.m. from Friday.

The number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients is at its highest in the United States since the start of the pandemic, at more than 65,000 according to the Covid Tracking Project.

And the virus has killed at least 242,621 nationwide, according to a count from Johns Hopkins University.

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