MOUNT DORA, Fla. Signs that read Stars and stripes and BOGO buys lined the sidewalks in Mount Dora Friday, instead of the hundreds of people usually downtown on a big Fourth of July weekend.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Mount Dora city officials canceled Friday nights Freedom at the Waterfront fireworks show, as well as the Fourth of July parade that was scheduled for Saturday morning.
However, Mount Dora city officials decided to cancel the weekend events and after seeing the recent spike in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, Winslow now believes its the right decision.
However, he believes it is better for the community in the long run to cancel the events now.
Those numbers came just one day after Florida broke its record for the highest number of cases reported in a single day with more than 10,100 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported Thursday.