They cut access to Miami Beach and decreed a curfew after excesses of the “spring break”

The emergency measures coincide with today’s record of more than two million cases of covid – 19 in Florida, the third state in the country with the highest incidence of the pathogen.

No person may circulate in the South Beach area, in the south of Miami Beach where excesses have occurred in recent weeks, starting at 8 pm, and Restaurants and bars should close at that same time, announced today the government of Mayor Dan Gelber.

The authorities will also close the access to Miami Beach at night through the Julia Tuttle, MacArthur and Venetian viaducts, the three main ones that connect Miami with South Miami Beach. Only residents and emergency personnel will be allowed through.

The measures will be in effect for three days, Gelber said at a press conference, but there are recommendations from others authorities to spread it.

The figures of detainees during the chaotic festivities, which left this week a young man died due to gunshot wounds, account for more than 900 arrests, a third for serious crimes, and the seizure of dozens of firearms.

The scenes of young people with liquor bottles in paper bags, the indecent dances on top of Cars and reluctance to face masks and social distance have been frequent for weeks on the boulevards near the beaches since early in the morning, while violence takes hold of the nights.

Miami Beach Police have even had to shoot pi balls lie to break up crowds.

The Disorder District

Mayor Gelber said that during the day the situation is more controllable, but the nights are problematic.

“It feels like a rock concert everywhere,” he lamented.

Gelber has suggested that the solution is to change the nature of the place from an entertainment district to a cultural one due to its beauty and Art Deco architecture.

In that sense, it indicates that “145 bars that are open until 5 in the morning. ”

Miami-Dade County, where Miami Beach is located, is the most affected in Florida by the pandemic, with more than 5, 700 deaths.

On Friday, the iconic Miami Beach (Florida) bar Clevelander announced the temporary closure when considering that eu the city has not been able to control the masses and does not want to put the covid at risk – 19 its employees or the structure of the place, which has suffered damage in recent days.

Television images show the damage to the bar, located in popular South Beach, an area where rampages and struggles between police and young students have occurred for several weeks.

The Clevelander said he cannot subdue his employees from the bar and restaurant to the indiscipline and aggression of customers, who do not respect social distance or wear masks, and who will pay their allowances as if they were working.

Although the hotel will continue to operate, the food and beverage service was suspended, initially until Wednesday, to avoid especially weekends, when the situation worsens, but it will be extended if the lack of control persists.

The s parties have spread throughout the county with illegal meetings in homes in residential areas that are promoted by social networks with provocative photos, without detailing the address of the place to avoid the police presence.

However, the authorities have intervened in dozens of them due to calls from neighbors subjected to the hubbub and disorder of dozens of students who arrive with liquor, even to houses that are unoccupied and for sale, as reported an investigation by channel 7News in Miami.