By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic
Gov. Doug Ducey has no plans to further restrict Arizona businesses as the state awaits its first COVID-19 vaccinations and infections soar across the state.
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Ducey spokesman CJ Karamargin said the illness is spreading across Arizona, as well as other states with harsher business limitations, mostly because of small family gatherings, not because people are eating out and going to the gym.
“Most of the spread we are seeing now is not being traced to businesses,” Karamargin said. “Most of it is traced to small gatherings of family and friends … There is no closure that is going to fix that.”
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Karamargin said Arizona slowed a summer spike in COVID-19 cases with limitations on businesses that remain in place, which include limited occupancy at bars, movie theaters and gyms as well as face-mask requirements at those businesses.
