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Texas Supreme Court blocks county order for COVID-19 restaurant curfew

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The Texas Supreme Court blocked local orders establishing an overnight curfew for restaurants to help limit the spread of the coronavirus, according to reports.

The court issued the order Friday, conditionally granting state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s petition to block enforcement of orders in Austin and surrounding Travis County.

The area currenty has more than 4,500 active cases of COVID-19, and the disease has killed more than 500 people there. Nationwide, the U.S.

leads all nations in both coronavirus infections and deaths, accounting for nearly 25 percent of cases around the globe and more than 348,000 fatalities.

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