BOERNE – The Mayor of Boerne last week amended the city’s public health emergency declaration, adding wider restrictions in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Mayor Tim Handren is urging residents to stay home unless they are providing essential services to the community and, therefore, required to be at work.
Essential services include law enforcement, medical services, banking services, food and supply services, or essential communication services, according to the mayor’s release.
The release additionally states that all people “shall avoid gatherings of any size and requires people returning to Boerne after being more than 100 miles away to self-quarantine for 14 days.”
As of March 30, there were seven confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kendall County.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week reissued his statewide regulations in wake of the pandemic. Under the his restrictions, bars, clubs and restaurants are closed to in-house dining and drinking, but can offer drive-thru, pick-up or delivery services. The rules will be enforced out of the safety of the public.
The state’s official count is 2,877 infected and 83 dead as of March 30. The Texas Hospital Association wrote Abbott in response to those numbers and statistical forecasting, calling on communities to shelter in place.
“Given the projections and gravity of the situation, Texas hospitals want to share our firm position in support of strong shelter-in-place provisions to protect our health care workers and the community,” Ted Shaw, the president and CEO of the Texas Hospital Association, wrote.
Counties throughout the state have issued their own shelter-in-place requirement over the past week as numbers across the nation continue to skyrocket.
As of March 30, the nationwide numbers have grown to over 161,000 confirmed cases with 2,978 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States now faces the most confirmed cases in the world.
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