Oahu Bars To Close For Three Weeks Starting Friday

In the first major rollback of Oahu’s effort to reopen the economy, Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced the island’s bars will be shuttered again for three weeks starting on Friday.

All bars will be closed completely, and restaurants that serve alcohol won’t be able to do so after 10 p.m., the mayor said.

The reversal comes just weeks after Honolulu bars reopened on June 19, when cases were relatively low. In recent days, however, numbers have soared, setting new records for Honolulu. Hawaii marked 124 new cases on Thursday, nearly all of them on Oahu.

“We don’t want to reverse our reopening that we’ve worked so hard on,” Caldwell said at a press conference Thursday. “We ranked the lowest level for a long period time among our states. We need to get back to that place, and we need to do it immediately.”

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