“Even with more students returning to school and more gatherings like football games, Texans have show that we can contain the spread of COVID,” Abbott said in the video. He did not elaborate in an an announcement that was not open to the press, and was instead made in a recorded video posted to Facebook. He later expressed regret over letting bars back in business so quickly.īut Abbott said safety protocols and testing are now better, adding that Texas would have an additional 100,000 rapid-result tests daily starting next week. It is also roughly the same number of patients Texas reported in mid-June, when cases began to skyrocket and Abbott retreated from one of America’s most aggressive reopenings, shuttering bars for a second time.
