Strickland: ‘We have to be apart to be together’

By Bill Dries, Daily Memphian Updated: March 20, 2020 8:44 AM CT | Published: March 20, 2020 8:44 AM CT

Just before going into a daily meeting at Memphis Emergency Management headquarters Friday morning, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the new measures he announced Thursday afternoon closing sit-down business at restaurants and closing outright gyms and workout spaces are to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the city, and are necessary to keep the city’s health care structure, namely its hospitals, from being overwhelmed.

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