Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on COVID-19 reopening: 'We are not Florida'
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is confident the lifting of his COVID-19 restrictions will be a process that goes better than some other states.
Earlier this month Lamont (D-Conn.) announced he would roll back pandemic restrictions starting March 19. As part of that, Lamont will eliminate capacity limits for restaurants, hair salons and churches. Movie theaters and performing arts sites will still have 50% capacity limits. The state's mask mandate will remain in place for the foreseeable future, Lamont told Yahoo Finance Live.
"I mean a lot of our small restaurants they have to keep the six foot of [social] distancing or they have the plexiglass up, so they will still be at 75%. A lot of bigger ones [restaurants] are saying let's go, we can do it. And by the way, we are not Florida it's not like everybody's going to rush in on March 19," Lamont said.
Lamont's counterpart in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), was among the first to lift COVID-19 restrictions on restaurants back in late September 2020. Critics of the move by DeSantis who repeatedly downplayed the severity of the pandemic last year in a show of support of then President Donald Trump say it led to a spike in COVID-19 cases in the state into year-end as people flooded back out.
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