“The governor has declared the pandemic is over. We hope the pandemic listens,” Broward County Mayor Steven Geller said after Florida’s governor suspended pandemic-related restrictions statewide Monday.
Guests wear masks as required to attend the official reopening day of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Saturday, July 11, 2020. Disney reopened two Florida parks, the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom, Saturday, with limited capacity and safety protocols in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
(CN) — Mayors in Florida’s two most populous counties decried Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday night, claiming he prematurely declared victory over the novel coronavirus by signing executive orders axing Covid-19 safety measures statewide.