If people comply, Malcolm said the measures should level off the state infection rate and the positivity rate of diagnostic testing. Walz and health officials chose four weeks because that reflects two infection cycles with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 - given its incubation period of up to 14 days. Only five customers will be allowed inside an establishment at any one time to pick up orders. And while bars and restaurants will be closed to in-person service, they can still provide takeout, drive-through and delivery service. Religious ceremonies also are unaffected along with weddings and funerals themselves, but celebrations and receptions are subject to the shutdown. Retail outlets are unaffected, along with salons, as Walz said state contact tracing has found little evidence that they are responsible for large outbreaks. The Minneapolis Institute of Art and Walker Art Center, which had reopened to limited audiences in mid-July, will close Saturday Mia said it would open no earlier than Jan.
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Walz’s four-week order also applies to movie theaters, bowling alleys and museums. The 1,706 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Minnesota on Wednesday represented a 31% increase. In the eight days since that last order, Minnesota saw roughly 52,000 more lab-confirmed infections and 312 more deaths - bringing the state’s totals to 242,043 infections and 3,010 deaths. “Two weeks ago, I thought a 5,000-case day was horrific,” Malcolm said. The goal was to focus on group gathering locations where large outbreaks have occurred, but Walz and state Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said rapid changes in the pandemic forced broader action.
Walz attempted a targeted response last week by restricting the sizes of wedding and funeral receptions and ordering bars and restaurants to close everything but takeout service by 10 p.m. That’s what’s different, Minnesota, this time.”
“But the bright spot of this is, the moves we take now will start to bend that at just the time when the potential for a vaccine is coming. “I know that hospitalizations are going to continue to go up for the next few weeks and I know that the death numbers will continue to go up for the next few weeks,” Walz said. While Minnesotans are weary of the pandemic, and endured a broader 51-day state shutdown last spring, Walz said this latest order could keep more Minnesotans healthy and more hospital beds available until a vaccine becomes available. The governor on Wednesday also ordered a pause on amateur sports and limited social gatherings to individual households - down from a cap imposed last week of 10 people from three households. Tim Walz has ordered a four-week shutdown of bars, restaurants, entertainment venues and fitness clubs, starting Friday, to slow the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused more than 3,000 deaths in Minnesota and threatens to overwhelm hospital capacity.
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