.@HarrisCoJudge Hidalgo & I urged @GovAbbott to keep the mask mandate in place prior to this afternoon's announcement. Wearing masks keeps our businesses and schools safely open, decreases community spread of the virus and saves lives. #WearAMask #MaskUpHou
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Official Tweets from the @HoustonTX Mayor’s Office. News and information from Mayor John Whitmire’s administration and communications team.
- The city is not shutting down. I know there are rumors online, but the city is not shutting down. --Mayor Turner
- Starting tomorrow at 8am: 1. Restaurants may only offer delivery, take out or drive thru options 2. Bars, nightclubs are closed #COVID19
- Unless the governor is trying to deflect from the embarrassing failure of the electrical grid, his decision to open the state 100% and revoke the mask mandate does not make sense.
- 🚨 Stay home, work safe order issued for Harris County. This means we should all stay home unless our jobs are essential. 🚨
- 🚨 I have asked Houston First to cancel the Texas GOP convention. At 3pm, Houston First sent a letter to the GOP that they are canceling the event. 🚨
- 🚨 Businesses in Harris County, including the city of Houston, must require employees and customers over the age of 10 to wear a face covering in an effort to slow the spread of #COVID19.
- Statement from the Mayor’s Office “The comments shared on social media are deeply inappropriate and have no place in a decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing. 🧵
- I understand people want to open up closed-down businesses, but what drives me as mayor of the City of Houston is that #COVID19 cases are concentrated in at-risk neighborhoods like the one I grew up in. This is personal for me. Do not gloss over it like it's not important.
- (1/2) Mayor Whitmire has spoken with CenterPoint’s CEO & made it clear that the energy company needs to do a better job restoring power and communicating with the hundreds of thousands of customers who lost electricity due to the widespread power outage caused by #HurricaneBeryl
00:00 - 🚨 We are sending a letter to the executive director of the Texas GOP party to ask them to cancel this month's convention in Houston. I am asking them to have a virtual event. It is not a good idea to have an in-person event. 🚨
- We believe the water is safe but based on regulatory requirements when pressure drops below 20 psi we are obligated to issue a boil water notice. The City is submitting its plan to TCEQ for approval tonight.
- For the first time since 1984, the @UHouston men’s basketball team is headed to the Final 4! 🎉 Congrats, Coogs! 🏀 #ForTheCity #MarchMadness 🐾🐾🐾🐾
- 🚨 I'm pleased to announce that the Houston Spaceport will be the place where the world's *first* commercial space station will be built. 🚨



