El Paso County Judge Samaniego announces holiday curfew due to virus concerns
EL PASO, Texas El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego on Wednesday announced a curfew for the Christmas and New Year s holiday periods out of concern over the coronavirus.
That curfew will run from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly from Dec. 23 to 26 and again from Dec. 30 to Jan. 4.
El Pasoans going to work, to the store for essential items or to seek medical care will be exempt from the curfew, which primarily targets social gatherings. We re going to be extremely focused on bad actors, the judge said of curfew enforcement plans.
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As COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Texas’ hard-hit border areas, experts warn vaccinated people could still spread virus
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EL PASO Hospitals in some of Texas’ hardest-hit border counties began vaccinating health care workers against COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing what one health authority called “cautious hope” to a heavily Hispanic, economically distressed region whose communities have been traumatized by infections and deaths at disproportionately high rates throughout the pandemic.
Some 15,600 doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine arrived at hospitals on Tuesday in El Paso and Edinburg, and more will land in Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville and El Paso later this week.
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EL PASO Hospitals in some of Texas hardest-hit border counties began vaccinating health care workers against COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing what one health authority called cautious hope to a heavily Hispanic, economically distressed region whose communities have been traumatized by infections and deaths at disproportionately high rates throughout the pandemic.
Some 15,600 doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine arrived Tuesday at hospitals in El Paso and Edinburg, and more will land in Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville and El Paso later this week.
At UT Health RGV in Edinburg, in the Rio Grande Valley, the first doses were administered Tuesday afternoon, and a vaccination center in the medical school s lobby will usher through 400 to 500 people per day for the next several days, said Dr. John H. Krouse, dean of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.
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