Florida’s Covid-19 surge shows the state's reopening plan is not working

As counties end the second week of Governor Ron DeSantis' safe, smart, step-by-step' policy, the state marks a record high in daily cases

It has been seven weeks since Florida's governor Ron DeSantis took a coronavirus victory lap", pressing ahead with a swift reopening program while berating the media for a doom and gloom" approach he said bore little relation to reality.

We haven't seen an explosion of new cases," DeSantis insisted during a 29 April news conference, a day on which the state's Covid-19 tally increased by 347.