FYI...
Gov. Greg Abbott
issues an executive order that limits social gatherings to 10 people, prohibits eating and drinking at restaurants and bars while still allowing takeout, closes gyms, bans people from visiting nursing homes except for critical care, and temporarily closes schools. The executive order is effective through midnight April 3.
March 20, 2020 212 confirmed cases
......Gov. Greg Abbott
moves the May 26 primary election runoffs to July 14, with early voting starting July 6. He also says small businesses battered by the coronavirus pandemic
can apply for long-term, low-interest loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
March 22, 2020 355 confirmed cases
Gov. Greg Abbott
orders health care professionals to postpone "all surgeries that are not medically necessary" and suspends regulations to allow hospitals to treat more than one patient in a room as a way to expand hospital staffing and capacity in Texas. The order expires April 21. The governor declines to issue a statewide shelter-in-place order — even as calls for such an action increase as the new coronavirus continues to spread across the state.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins
issues a countywide shelter-in-place order — the most expansive action yet from a Texas official to combat the new coronavirus.
March 23, 2020 373 confirmed cases
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says abortions
should not be performed unless the mother’s life is in danger. Providers can be fined $1,000 or face jail time of up to 180 days if found in violation. Texas abortion providers
sue top state officials two days later.
Many of Texas’ biggest urban cities and counties
order residents to stay indoors, including Harris, Tarrant, Collin, Bexar and Travis counties.
March 26, 2020 1,396 confirmed cases
Gov. Greg Abbott
requires visitors flying to Texas from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Orleans to self-quarantine for 14 days during the coronavirus pandemic.
March 29, 2020 2,552 confirmed cases
Gov. Greg Abbott
expands his executive order requiring a 14-day self-quarantine for anyone flying into Texas from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or New Orleans. Texas begins requiring a 14-day self-quarantine for anyone driving into Texas from Louisiana and for those flying in from Miami, Atlanta, Detroit,Chicago, California and Washington.
The governor also
bars inmates accused or previously convicted of violent crimes from being released from jails without paying bail.
March 31, 2020 3,266 confirmed cases
Gov. Greg Abbott tells Texans to
stay at home for the next month unless they are taking part in essential services and activities. He declines to call his latest executive order a shelter-in-place or stay-at-home order, arguing such labels leave the wrong impression and that he wants Texans to know, for example, they can still go to the grocery store. He also closes schools until at least May 4.
March 31, 2020 3,266 confirmed cases
“If you’re not engaged in an essential service or activity, then you need to be at home for the purpose of slowing the spread of COVID-19,”
— Gov. Greg Abbott