Miami Beach curfew due to uncontrollable influx of tourists

The massive arrival of tourists to the small town of Miami Beach forces local authorities to impose a curfew which will empty the streets and restaurants, and this will even involve the closure of the bridges that connect the island to Miami, seeking to stop the increased coronavirus infections in a country punished by the pandemic.

For 72 hours, visitors must leave the streets and restaurants will have to close at 20 in the main tourist areas of south beach, the Miami Beach Party Center.

The three bridges that connect the island to Miami, in addition, they will be closed to traffic after 22, and only residents, workers and hotel guests will have access.

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“It’s a matter of public security“said the acting city manager, Raul Aguila, when the measures were announced, according to the press agency AFP.

The decision of the local authorities comes after crowded weeks in Miami Beach, recipient of crowds of almost uncontrolled tourists, largely by students who usually come from late February to mid-April for Spring Break.

The mayor Dean gelber He warned that this year “the volume is significantly higher than in previous years”, which he attributed “in part to the fact that there is Few places are open in the rest of the country, or they are very cold, or they are closed and they are also very cold. “

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Over the past two days, footage of fights in restaurants and hundreds of young people without distance or jugular and the Miami Beach Police Chief, Richard Clements, said he was concerned that the the situation becomes unmanageable. The island barely has 92,000 inhabitants but every day some 200,000 visitors and workersGelber reported last Monday.

The United States is the country most affected by the pandemic, with nearly 30 million infections and on the verge of 540,000 deaths, although Florida has seen some decline in its numbers in recent days.

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