WATCH LIVE: Raimondo Expected to Announce RI Shutdowns at 1 PM

WATCH LIVE: Raimondo Expected to Announce RI Shutdowns at 1 PM

Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is expected to detail shutdowns for the state in light of growing coronavirus numbers at her weekly press conference at 1 PM. 

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As GoLocal reported on Thursday: 

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From November 6 to the 18 — less than two weeks of similar testing, new daily coronavirus cases in Rhode Island jumped from 630 cases to 1,280 and hospitalizations increased 51% jumping from 187 to 284. 

This pace will exhaust hospital capacities in three weeks at this rate of increase.

"If you compare [Tuesday] to about five days ago and the last time we tested the same number of people — we tested 18,000 people over the last 24 hours, we got about 1280 positives — when we got to that number last time we got to about 900 positives — that suggests we’ve had 30% growth and spread in 5 days," said Dr. Michael Fine, the former Rhode Island Director of Health.

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