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Miami Orders Residents To "Shelter-In-Place," Some Shopping And Exercise Still Ok

PEDRO PORTAL
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MIAMI HERALD
The largest city in Miami Dade County is under the kind of “shelter-in-place” order that Florida Democrats want from Gov. Ron DeSantis.";s:

Miami’s top administrator on Tuesday issued an emergency order instructing more than 460,000 residents to remain in their homes except when shopping, exercising and taking other trips to jobs and other places already exempted from widespread closure orders from the coronavirus crisis.

“Hopefully people will get the message to stay home,” Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said in a video message Tuesday night.

The order from City Manager Art Noriega puts Miami-Dade’s largest city under the kind of “shelter-in-place” order that Florida Democrats want from Gov. Ron DeSantis. It also escalates a conflict between Suarez and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who has dismissed the “shelter-in-place” push as a fight over terminology and not stricter controls on movement.

Read more at our news partner the Miami Herald.

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