McDonald’s announced it will pause the reopening of its dine-in service for three weeks as the number of CCP virus cases continues to rise across the United States.
“Our resiliency will be tested again. Covid-19 cases are on the rise,” McDonald’s U.S. president Joe Erlinger and Mark Salebra, chair of the National Franchisee Leadership Alliance, both said, according to Reuters and CNBC. “This surge shows nobody is exempt from this virus—even places that previously had very few cases.”
“To be clear: owner/operators will make the final decision in these situations,” they wrote.
“Roughly 50 percent of all the new cases are taking place in four states,” Pence said at a news conference in Maryland. He added that the White House pandemic task force is “particularly focusing on the four states that are generating the majority of the cases which, of course, are California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida.”