Source::AP
New Orleans
Live indoor music can resume in New Orleans beginning this weekend, city officials announced on Wednesday, but dancing will remain prohibited, while venues, performers, and audiences will be under strict requirements to employ measures to control the spread of the coronavirus.
The new rules take effect Friday morning, in response to a decline of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the city. It was not immediately clear how many bars and other live music venues will be able to meet them and begin hosting live entertainment again in a city where music is ingrained in cultural history and vital to tourism.
Live music has not been allowed at indoor events in New Orleans in almost a year, since the city became an early hot spot in the COVID-19 pandemic. Bars have been under on-again, off-again shutdown orders, and efforts to prevent the spread of the disease resulted in a virtual shutdown of Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras when the thoroughfare of restaurants and entertainment venues would ordinarily have been crowded with revelers.
The disease is blamed for 769 deaths in the city, so far.
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