Anne Arundel County is halting indoor and outdoor dining for four weeks starting Wednesday at 5 p.m. until Wednesday, Jan. 13, County Executive Steuart Pittman announced Thursday. Retail stores, fitness centers, casinos, nail and hair salons will have tighter restrictions by scaling back to 25% capacity.
“I’m sorry to bring you this kind of news, but I’m heartened that so many of us believe that this is what we need to do,” Pittman said. “We need to push these numbers down; we need to protect our healthcare system. And at the end of the day, we’re going to look back on this time. And we’re going to ask ourselves if there was more that we could have done to save lives.”