City of Socorro issued the following announcement on Nov. 26.
El Paso County is in STAGE 1 on our community’s Covid-19 Scorecard (Stage 1 is the worst). On Tuesday, the Health Department reported 1,257 new Covid-19 cases which brings us to a total of 82,809 cases. We presently have 41% of Covid-19 hospitalizations in El Paso and are sadly reporting 15 new deaths which brings us to a total of 877. We have an estimated 1,500 medical personnel that have been sent to El Paso by the State to help with the spike in hospitalizations. El Paso County, the City, the Office of Emergency Management, the Texas Division of Emergency Management and BorderRAC have been working side by side on the logistics of a Decedent Holding Facility to help with fatality management. This is the current reality our community finds itself in.
This past weekend, El Paso County Judge received approval from Governor Greg Abbott's Office to move forward with issuing a curfew. Today, the County Judge amended the County’s Stay Home Order to include a curfew throughout the County from the hours of 10:00 P.M.-5:00A.M which will go into effect Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 12:01 A.M.
• Curfew applies to social activities.
• Curfew does not apply when out for essential or non-essential business.
• Shopping is not affected by the curfew in order to allow stores to remain open for extended hours and minimize the number of shoppers crowded into a store at any single point during the day.
• Shoppers are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to utilize curbside-to-go, drive-through, home delivery, and online services to avoid large crowds.
• This curfew will end on Monday, November 30th at 5:00 P.M., unless extended.
Given the circumstances El Paso County finds itself in, the Department of Public Health released additional guidelines that include recommendations for activities related to Holiday shopping and Holiday gatherings. Some of those guidelines include:
• Consideration for not gathering with individuals not in the same household.
• Consideration for avoiding travel anywhere.
• Celebrating virtually.
• Shopping online as much as possible.
• Avoid shopping at peak hours.
• At-risk loved ones should remain at home and not venture out to shop.
• Do not gather outside of stores before opening hours.
As a reminder the following measures are currently still in place:
• Residents are strongly urged to shelter at home.
• If leaving your home to obtain essential or non-essential services, this Order strongly recommends that only one person per family participate in obtaining goods and services.
• No gatherings over 10 people.
• Restaurants are allowed to open at 50% capacity and must stop service at 9:00 p.m. Take out and curbside allowed after that time.
• Bars remain closed.
• Face Coverings are required.
Original source can be found here.
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