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Gov. Greg Abbott has closed Texas bars twice since the pandemic began. Now he’s hinting at opening them again.

Gov. Greg Abbott has closed Texas bars twice since the pandemic began. Now he’s hinting at opening them again.

Abbott shut down bars for a second time in June, when the proportion of coronavirus tests with positive results was more than 18%. That number has dropped to just over 6%. Experts worry that opening bars will contribute to another surge.

Gov. Greg Abbott teased in a tweet Monday that he would soon allow “more openings” of Texas businesses, setting off speculation that he will allow bars to reopen a second time because he ended the message with the word “Cheers!” and included an image of two beer mugs clinking.

Abbott wrote in the tweet that the spread of the coronavirus and numbers of people hospitalized with COVID-19 “remain contained.”

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