AUSTIN (KXAN) — At the Austin City Council’s work session Tuesday, Mayor Steve Adler said he wants the council to discuss how the city can reopen restaurants safely soon.
“Anytime you increase the number of physical interactions, you’re taking greater risk that the virus is going to spread,” he said.
When asked about slowly reopening the local economy, Dr. Mark Escott, Austin’s Interim Health Authority, said, “When it comes down to it, the risk you’re trying to mitigate is that person-to-person interaction, so when we look at can we open this, can we do that, it’s going to boil down to how many times individuals are going to be face to face.”
KXAN’s Yoojin Cho is digging into different ideas discussed at Tuesday’s work session and also speaking with the Texas Restaurant Association. Watch her report on KXAN News at 9 and 10 p.m.
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