⁍ South Korea has reported 113 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.

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⁍ New Orleans’ mayor is shutting down the city’s bars because of rising coronavirus numbers.

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⁍ Mississippi’s governor is setting new restrictions on bars and social gatherings to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

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– South Korea has reported 113 new cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours, its first daily jump above 100 in nearly four months. But the rise was expected as health authorities had forecast a temporary spike driven by imported infections found among cargo-ship crews and hundreds of South Korean construction workers flown out of virus-ravaged Iraq. The figures released today by South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brought the national caseload to 14,092, including 298 deaths. The agency says 86 of the new cases are linked to international arrivals, while the other 27 involved local transmissions. It says the imported cases include 36 South Korean workers who returned from Iraq and 32 crew members of a Russia-flagged cargo ship docked in the southern port of Busan. Meanwhile, the AP reports that Mississippi’s governor is setting new restrictions on bars and social gatherings to curb the spread of the coronavirus among a group that he describes as “young, drunk, careless folks.” New Orleans’ mayor is shutting down the city’s bars because of rising coronavirus numbers and is also forbidding restaurants to sell alcoholic drinks to go. Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Friday that some lines of people waiting to buy drinks were so long they became ‘a gathering in themselves, and no mask-wearing and the like.’ Cantrell says the city is seeing daily increases in confirmed coronavirus cases about double its threshold of 50 a day for more relaxed rules. The rule against take-out sales of alcoholic drinks takes effect at 6am today.