Virus comeback puts reopenings on hold

Texas and Florida reversed course and clamped down on bars again yesterday in the nation’s biggest retreat yet as the daily number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the US surged to an all-time high of

40,000. The two states joined the small but growing list of those that are either backtracking or putting any further reopenings of their economies on hold because of a comeback by the virus, mostly in the South and West.