Gov. Mike DeWine to extend the overnight coronavirus curfew, remains mum on extra restrictions – cleveland.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Mike DeWine, while not divulging whether hes going to impose more coronavirus restrictions in the state, said he will extend the overnight curfew, which will expire Thursday after three weeks.

It will need to be extended, DeWine said during a Monday coronavirus briefing. Well talk more about that Thursday,

Beyond that, it remains to be seen whether more action will be taken to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

The Ohio Department of Healths medical director, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, appears to advocate more restrictions.

Vanderhoff said during the same briefing on Monday that the rate of new cases in Ohio, according to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, higher than the national average and that all of Ohios neighbors have lower testing positivity rates.

You put all that together, and you have a picture of us having had some degree of success in slowing the rate of increase, he said. But I think that as the governor indicated, were going to need to go further if were going to even get a flattening.

Vanderhoff is referring to comments DeWine made last week, saying the state will have to do more to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

We dont have any choice, he said Friday.

Medical experts across the country debated the effectiveness of the overnight curfew when DeWine first announced it -- with some saying it would stop the riskiest behavior that is behind the latest COVID-19 wave, others saying it would have little impact because most people are at home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. and yet others warning that if the times people are allowed to be out are condensed, there could even be more spread.

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