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The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/dc-maryland-virginia-coronavirus-cases/" target=_blank>number of known coronavirus cases</a> in the District, Maryland and Virginia was 102,059 on Friday, with 50,988 cases in Maryland, 42,533 in Virginia and 8,538 in the District. The number of virus-related deaths reached 2,466 in Maryland, 1,358 in Virginia and 460 in the District, for a total of 4,284 fatalities.

Here are some of the most significant recent developments as the region responds to the pandemic of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?arc404=true">the novel coronavirus</a>, which causes the disease covid-19:

• The District and Northern Virginia are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-virus-battered-dc-and-northern-virginia-reopen-signs-of-normalcy-are-scarce/2020/05/29/e49326a2-a1ae-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html" target=_blank>taking steps to reopen today</a>, gradually loosening stay-at-home rules that have been in place because of the pandemic, as business owners are stocking up on hand sanitizer and putting up signs requiring masks.

• On Friday, 85 days after the novel coronavirus appeared in the Washington region, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/05/29/coronavirus-has-infected-100000-people-dc-maryland-virginia/" target=_blank>the number of known infections in D.C., Maryland and Virginia surpassed 100,000</a>. That means six in every 1,000 residents have tested positive for the virus. At least 13,000 patients have been hospitalized, according to state data, and 4,239 have died.

• Starting today, all passengers and visitors will be required to wear face coverings at Reagan National and Dulles International airports. Children under the age of 10 and people who have medical conditions that prevent them from wearing face coverings will be exempted from the requirement, airport officials said.

• Maryland’s two largest D.C. suburbs <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/montgomer-prince-georges-to-start-reopening-monday/2020/05/28/248c2164-a0ec-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html" target="_blank">will begin to lift shutdown restrictions Monday</a>, the final pieces of a tentative reopening for the Washington area. Both Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich (D) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) said declining trends in hospitalizations for the coronavirus would allow them to ease the closure of nonessential businesses Monday.

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/05/08/dc-reopen-coronavirus-faq/">When will D.C. reopen?</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/05/08/virginia-reopen-coronavirus-faq/">What is open in Virginia?</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/05/08/maryland-reopen-coronavirus-faq/">What is open in Maryland?</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/dc-maryland-virginia-coronavirus-cases/">Known coronavirus cases in the region</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/getting-tested-for-coronavirus-in-virginia-maryland-dc/2020/03/26/5e19f608-6de9-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html">How to get tested</a>

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Please read The Post’s continuing coverage <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-virus-battered-dc-and-northern-virginia-reopen-signs-of-normalcy-are-scarce/2020/05/29/e49326a2-a1ae-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_14" target=_blank>here.</a>

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NBA Golden State Warriors vs Washington Wizards

The Washington Wizards reopened their practice facility and began voluntary player workouts on Friday, returning to a semblance of normal for the first time since <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/12/nba-decision-suspend-season-rudy-gobert/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&itid=lk_inline_manual_17">the NBA shut down more than two months</a> ago.

The Wizards became one of the last teams in the league to return to their practice facility, located in Southeast D.C., as the organization waited on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-virus-battered-dc-and-northern-virginia-reopen-signs-of-normalcy-are-scarce/2020/05/29/e49326a2-a1ae-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_3&itid=lk_inline_manual_18">the city to begin Phase 1 of reopening</a>. The District began its reopening at 12:01 a.m. Friday, as the D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser lifted some restrictions. However, contact sports remain banned on city fields.

League rules prohibit players from participating in scrimmages and coming into contact with one another during workouts. Workouts on Friday would have consisted of individual players either getting up shots on the court — with a team staffer wearing a mask and gloves rebounding the ball — or using the weight room with strict physical distancing and hygiene protocols in place.

Late Friday afternoon, Isaac Bonga, Anzejs Pasecniks and Jerome Robinson were spotted entering the facility for voluntary workouts, and underwent a thorough routine before even touching a basketball.

According to a video about safety protocols that was released by the team, players who want to work out are required to use an ear thermometer, provided by the team, at their residence to check and report their temperatures to the athletic trainer before arriving to the practice facility. Once they have pulled into the parking lot, players must wait in their car before getting summoned inside by a trainer. The team recommends that players leave their phone, along with their keys and hat, inside the car before entering the facility.

Read the full story <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/05/29/wizards-cautiously-begin-voluntary-player-workouts-washington-reopens/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22" target=_blank>here.</a>

Candace Buckner

Beach Road in Rock Creek Park - Washington, DC

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Friday the city will allow battered restaurants to space out their tables in public streets, in parking spaces and on sidewalks after a quick application, creating “streateries.”

Bowser said the city will also close some city streets to through traffic to make walking and biking safer. D.C. lawmakers who had called for such action applauded the move. The mayor’s ReOpen DC advisory group earlier this month called for similar efforts, including “diversifying our streets.”

Jeff Marootian, director of the D.C. Department of Transportation, said the city will put up signs and barricades creating “slow streets” in communities across the city. Through traffic will be prohibited, and the speed limit will be 15 miles per hour, even below the new, citywide default speed limit of 20 miles per hour officials also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dc-speed-limit-cut/2020/05/29/3be40f74-36ee-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_27" target=_blank>announced Friday</a>.

Marootian said officials are still determining how many miles will be covered. The first stretches of road will be disclosed next week.

“We intend for this to be a robust network,” built over several months, he said.

D.C. lawmakers said they are still pushing legislation to create a broader network of dedicated, protected lanes for commuting by bike given disruptions to transit caused by the virus.

Bowser said the plan for more restaurant seating in public places will be implemented swiftly. Officials said restaurateurs’ applications to the city should take just days.

The mayor said the changes will help the District “reimagine our roadways,” echoing similar moves in cities across the country.

Read the full story <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/cities-are-closing-streets-to-make-way-for-restaurants-and-pedestrians/2020/05/25/1f1af634-9b73-11ea-ad09-8da7ec214672_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_33" target="_blank">here.</a>

Michael Laris

Happy hour arrived at Whiskey Charlie on the Wharf, and the only person admiring the stunning rooftop view was the bartender.

Kyle Kauffman, 47, straightened the glasses of sliced lemons and alcohol-soaked cherries, waiting for customers.

“On a day like today, they should have been here already,” he said. “We’ve got to get the word out that we are open.”

Kauffman had been jazzed to be behind the bar again. He spent the afternoon perfecting new custom cocktails, knowing he would have to serve them in plastic disposable cups for safety.

He has been thinking of himself as lucky, to work at a place with plenty of outdoor space to welcome customers back. Now he couldn’t help but wonder if, without many tips, he would be making even less than he did on unemployment.

At 5:15 p.m., a woman in a summery blue dress arrived on the rooftop.

“Hey there!” Kauffman asked. “First one back!”

He served her a plastic cup of sauvignon blanc.

In Adams Morgan, the Lauriol Plaza restaurant had converted its parking lot into an additional patio, setting up about three dozen tables to make room for more diners.

Dance music thumped from a tiki bar, and the doors of jumbo slice joints had thrown open their doors for the hungry and tipsy to get floppy takeaway pizza. But there was something missing from one of D.C.’s most popular spots for happy hour: the drinkers.

There were just a smattering of parties on the 18th Street strip, a far cry from the throngs of revelers that spilled from its sidewalks on a typical Friday night before the pandemic.

One couple, who said they had been in careful isolation during the stay-at-home order, had ventured out to the front patio of Pop’s Sea Bar. They had reserved the single table there for a two-hour block from 4 to 6 p.m. and were drinking white wine and Pabst.

“I came out to support a local business and support people who are friends of mine,” the man said. “We live in the neighborhood. Maybe by going out and setting a precedent of keeping it safe, others will do the same.”

They felt reassured that Pop’s had an isolated outdoor table, disposable menus and was participating in contact tracing. They had to sign a release, saying they understood the bar’s rules.

“It’s pretty weird,” the man said. “I’m nervous. I’m anxious.”

He noted that walkers had edged away from the couple as they passed on the sidewalk. Just then, a woman passing by paused and exclaimed: “It’s so nice to see people drinking wine!”

Jessica Contrera

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Perry Stein

The phased reopening will do nothing to change policies and procedures in place at Virginia Hospital Center in Alexandria, chief medical officer Jeff DiLisi said Friday afternoon. He said around the country even a gradual relaxing of stay-at-home orders has resulted in a surge of cases.

“What we’re going to be watching is maybe two to three weeks from now what happens to our admissions in the hospital and who we see coming into the ER,” he said.

People should not use their newfound freedom to dine outdoors at a restaurant or to get a haircut as permission to take risks, DiLisi said.

“The policies that are laid out for Phase 1, if people take them seriously, wearing masks and practicing social distancing, hopefully we can go to Phase 2,” he said. Otherwise, “we could certainly see a bump up.” 

Virginia Hospital Center treated as many as 100 coronavirus patients at once at the peak of infection in late April to early May, he said.

Paul Skolnik, an infectious-disease physician and chair of medicine for Carilion Clinic, which operates Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, said like many parts of the country that have reported relatively few cases, there’s significant resistance to preventive measures among some in Southwest Virginia.

“There are many license plates in Southwest Virginia that have the logo, ‘Don’t Tread on Me,’” he said. “That’s not a particularly helpful viewpoint when we’re talking about use of masks and social distancing.” 

Some residents have incorrectly translated the governor’s reopening guidelines to mean that hand hygiene and other measures are less important, Skolnik said.

“In fact, they’re even more important than they were before so we can control any risk of a second wave or a surge especially in Southwest Virginia where we’ve been able to manage things so we haven’t had as many cases,” he said.

The Roanoke hospital was treating nine coronavirus-positive patients on Friday, he said.

Jenna Portnoy

The excitement of reopening fizzled a bit once shoppers made it inside the ghost town mall at Potomac Mills.

“Hello, beautiful!” Mimi said to each longhair woman who passed by her kiosk, Straight Ahead. She wanted to straighten their hair with her line of hair tools. All day, she had no takers.

“No one. Not one,” she said, rolling her eyes.

Her boss, Giovanni, who said he could not give out their last names, was optimistic.

“People need to feel safe,” he said. “They will. Maybe a little later.” 

The Zen Relax massage kiosk had only two customers all day.

“We have sanitizer, we have masks, we are careful,” said frustrated masseur Kevin Yan. “But not too many people are ready to be touched.” 

Most of the big-name stores were closed. Vans and Vera Bradley, Tommy Bahama and Bloomingdale’s, Lego and Lacoste were dark.

About half of the food court stands were open, but chairs and tables were stacked and roped off. To-go was the only option.

The spaceship and racecar rides were cocooned in plastic wrap. The playground was closed.

“It’s a little depressing. All the stores I like aren’t open,” said Ana Prada, who came with her family from Stafford for a shopping day.

“You can’t try anything on, the fitting rooms are closed,” she said. “So you have to go home and try it on, then return it if it doesn’t fit. And that doesn’t make any sense.” 

Her daughter Kylah Prada was supposed to be at school for her last day as a sophomore. The mall wasn’t as uplifting as she had hoped it would be, but she was happy to be out of the house. Plus, she found some cute tops at Forever 21.

“It’s weird,” the 15-year-old said. “But this makes it feel like it’s coming back, slowly.” 

The stores that opened seemed to be the ones that draw Gen Z. And they were popping.

“We’ve been so busy from the moment we opened,” said a cashier at Against All Odds, the place with cropped Champion hoodies, Tommy Hilfiger fanny packs and Superdry Windbreakers.

Lashay Williams and her crew were loving the fresh summer T-shirts they had.

“I’m so happy to be out,” said Williams, 24, who usually works stadium security and sports events in the District, where she lives.

She’s been cooped up and needed to get to some shoe stores.

“It’s a start,” she said. “I just put in for a new job. It feels like everything is restarting.” 

Petula Dvorak

The Democrats in Maryland’s congressional delegation have asked Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to publicize a detailed testing plan required by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the latest in a wave of pressure on the governor to explain the state’s response to the pandemic.

The CDC plan is supposed to outline Maryland’s strategy for deploying $205 million in federal cash designated to enhance testing. Maryland’s congressional leaders want the governor to focus on black, Latino and other minority communities disproportionately affected by the virus.

“We urge you to outline how you will target testing resources to the hardest hit communities in Maryland, particularly communities of color,” the nine Democrats in the state’s 10-member delegation <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/maryland-democrats-press-hogan-on-testing-transparency/f46bc1db-9a29-47cf-8f06-06e98ba226a2/?itid=lk_inline_manual_89">wrote to Hogan</a> on Friday. “… We urge you to make your plan submission public so Marylanders have a full understanding of the State’s testing goals and how these federal resources will be put to use.”

Hogan spokesman Michael Ricci said the administration’s initial report will “reflect our long-term testing strategy and note how we have hit our short-term goal of 10,000 tests per day, broadened criteria to include those who are asymptomatic, expanded community-based testing throughout the state, announced agreements with CVS and Walmart to conduct testing on-site, authorized the state’s nearly 1,200 pharmacies to administer tests, and directly allocated test kits to local jurisdictions — all of which has helped bring the state’s positivity rate down to 12.0 percent.”

Ricci said a full report is not due until June 15. He did not say whether the administration would release either report to the public.

Friday’s letter, coordinated by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D), comes as Democrats across the state have pressured Hogan and his administration to reveal more details about why the 500,000 test kits he purchased from South Korea have not been widely deployed.

Last week, the congressmen wrote Hogan <a href="https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/download/maryland-delegation-members-plan-for-racial-disparities-letter-to-hogan" target=_blank>a separate letter</a> asking him to develop a detailed plan to help minority communities the same way he developed plans to treat hot spots in nursing homes and poultry plants. As of Friday, the letter had not been answered.

Democrats who lead the Maryland General Assembly have criticized the governor for not answering questions about the state’s response to the crisis. On Wednesday, health department officials for the fifth consecutive week canceled an appearance before a committee of state lawmakers.

Erin Cox

Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Friday issued an executive order allowing breweries, wineries and distilleries in Maryland to serve patrons outdoors.

The order also allows them to ship craft beer, wine or alcohol directly to consumers, which is not otherwise allowed under Maryland’s alcohol laws. It follows the eased restrictions, effective at 5 p.m. Friday, that already permitted bars and restaurants to do outdoor dining.

Hogan also renewed a separate executive order that bars cellphone, cable, Internet and utility companies from shutting off service or charging late fees. That moratorium remains in effect until July 1.

Among the first Maryland wineries to reopen was Big Cork Vineyards, in Washington County. The vineyard has adapted in several ways during the pandemic, offering virtual wine tastings as well as delivery and pickup. Now it has opened its outdoor patio seating for customers to pick up a bottle of wine and enjoy it outside.

Outside the east entrance of the U Street Metro station Friday afternoon, French Bryant, leader of a nearby D.C. Masonic lodge, stood next to a table overflowing with bagged lunches as the Crush Funk Brass Band played “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

As many D.C. businesses reopen, Bryant and his lodge brethren were there to hand out free sandwiches and cookies to anyone who wanted one — no questions asked. Just as the coronavirus has hampered the District’s bars and eateries, it has held back the work of the men of Charles Datcher Lodge No. 15.

“They say everything’s secret — you can Google ‘Masonry’ and everything comes up,” Bryant said. “Really what we’re here to do is give back to the community.”

Bryant, who works on equal-opportunity complaints for the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the lodge was unsure how to safely do outreach work as the pandemic unfolded. The 33-year-old lives in Southern Maryland with his wife and was under a stay-at-home order — the lodge members couldn’t gather at all, let alone gather to distribute needed supplies at a safe distance.

Not all the lunches were distributed, but French said the remainder would be dropped off at a local homeless shelter. Crush Funk, which Bryant met while playing trumpet in a band at Bowie State University, inspired some street-corner dancing as well.

“When people come by and they see young guys doing good things, it helps them to see that there are still good people out there,” Bryant said. “We’re here to help.”

Justin Wm. Moyer

Metro has not seen a noticeable increase in its ridership, officials said early Friday afternoon. Passengers on both bus and rail have been mostly made up of commuters who cannot work from home. The easing of business restrictions in the District and Northern Virginia hasn’t impacted buses or rail cars, the public transit agency said.

“It’s been extremely light, as it has been since mid-March,” Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said. “And this morning’s ridership is very much in line with what we’ve seen in recent weeks.”

As of noon, Stessel said, Metrorail had logged 17,000 passenger trips, which is slightly up compared to last Friday but down compared to the same day two weeks ago.

Ridership has shown a slight uptick with better weather, transit officials said, but it has not been significant enough to prompt Metro to run more buses or trains.

Metro’s ridership this week remained at historic lows — down at least 90 percent from pre-pandemic levels on rail and around 70 percent on Metrobus. The levels have been consistent since mid-March, when the transit agency cut back service and closed down several stations to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

Justin George

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Mai Ngo, owner of King Street Souvenirs, placed a few parameters on her first dining experience at an Old Town Alexandria restaurant in months.

She didn’t want to fall asleep after eating or get drunk.

Beyond that, Ngo wanted to order a somewhat extravagant, celebratory meal. So when she crossed the street shortly before noon Friday to occupy one of the newly set up tables outside the Warehouse, she ordered crawfish linguine. With bread and a salad. And iced tea, much as she would have liked something more festive — after all, she was returning to work at her souvenir business.

“It feels great,” she said as she worked her way through the salad. “We all have to be careful,” she added. “You can stay home if you want. But we have a choice to live life.”

Around her, King Street was stirring to life after months of relative inactivity. It was muggy, and a hazy late-morning sun beat down on the restaurant workers measuring the distance between outdoor tables and shoppers tentatively peeking into establishments where they could finally browse the wares again in person. Crowds were not yet out in force, but the shift in Old Town’s atmosphere was unmistakable.

Around the corner from where Ngo was eating, Kathy Schumacher was browsing the sale racks — all clearance shoes available for $35 a pair — at Comfort One Shoes. Cradling a box of Ecco sandals, Schumacher said it was time for Virginia’s economy to reopen.

“Our country was founded on risk,” she said, and to get through the coronavirus pandemic, “we may need some of that spirit.”

Risks were what Jesse Maas was busy trying to avoid down the street. The director of operations at Fish Market and neighboring Pop’s Ice Cream oversaw his staff as they set up outdoor tables at least six feet apart, with extra space around the entrances to both establishments to allow people to come and go for takeout without getting too close to dine-in customers.

The block of King between Union and Lee streets had been blocked to car traffic so restaurants could expand their outdoor seating into the roadway. A group of city workers walked by, spray-painting the outer boundaries of where Fish Market and other eateries could set up tables.

“My honest opinion — I'll probably get in trouble for saying this — I would open 100 percent,” Maas said, allowing customers to dine indoors and out. “And if you feel afraid, or you feel like you’re in danger, you have the right to stay home.”

Maas, who has three children, said he was furloughed in the early days of the quarantine. Business at Fish Market and Pop’s plummeted. He said he felt restaurants had been unfairly singled out for closure, and that they were just as safe for the public as grocery stores and other businesses that had been deemed essential and allowed to continue operating.

“You walk into your local grocery store, you’ve got people grabbing avocados to see if they’re ripe. I think at restaurants, you’re just as safe,” Maas said. “I don’t want to come off as this guy who doesn’t care about the coronavirus, because I very much do. But we’re just trying to survive.”

Peter Jamison

Early Friday morning, Gi H. Chung rode the McPherson Square Metro station escalator underground, walked over to the Metro Variety souvenir shop that greets passengers just before the turnstiles, unlocked the door and flipped on the neon “OPEN” sign for the first time since March 15.

He put out a box of disposable gloves and free surgical masks to both entice customers and to protect his business and personal health. Then he waited. He paced around the store and made sure his biggest seller — T-shirts with the U.S. seal — stayed sharply folded. He waited some more. He sat down and began reading a newspaper.

But inside, he said, he was worried. Chung, 55, survived the past few months on savings, but he said he will soon have trouble if his store doesn’t start making up for lost business.

“Rent is big money,” he said. “If customers don’t come, we don’t have business. If we don’t have business, we can’t make rent.”

The past 2½ months were the first time he recalls closing his seven-day-a-week tchotchke store, which he has run in various iterations at different D.C. locations for 35 years. Inside his presidential superstore, the deeply partisan divide of today collides, clashes and coexists in a tiny space. Bobbleheads for presidents Trump and Obama sit together near coffee mugs with Hillary Clinton figurines standing inside. A kiosk holds scores of $2.99 magnets of the American Flag or bald eagle, and miniature Liberty Bells and Trump troll dolls line nearby shelves.

About seven years ago, Trump pushed Chung out of his store at the Old Post Office Pavilion at 1100 Pennsylvania NW when the then-New York magnate redeveloped the site into the Trump International Hotel. Now, with his store resituated at McPherson Square, Chung once again must make room for Trump, whose memorabilia takes up a good percentage of his store.

Chung’s souvenir business relies on tourists, and he said he doesn’t know when they will return. He keeps alert for when the Smithsonian museums will reopen, which he said is a true barometer for recovery and a harbinger for District tourism.

“When is back up? When is normal? No one knows,” he said. “My business is the souvenir business. Maybe it will pick up. Maybe it will pick up next year.”

As the day wore on with no customers, Chung walked outside his store to stretch. He said he typically walks between two and three hours a day to work off the stress.

Then he walked back in, past the 50-percent-off clearance sandwich board sign at the door and past the “Make America Great Again” ball cap staring out the storefront window.

Maryland’s public universities are moving toward at least some in-person teaching in the fall term after a spring disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The University System of Maryland, which oversees 15 universities and higher education centers, said Friday that campus-restart plans will vary from school to school. The flagship University of Maryland at College Park, which has about 41,000 students, has not yet disclosed how it will operate in the fall.

But the system’s guidance, outlined in a four-page statement, clearly signaled that higher education leaders anticipate a mix of teaching and learning methods.

Schools “will welcome students back to campus this fall in a hybrid fashion, combining at least some on-campus, in-person instruction with remote learning,” the system said. Schools expect to announce plans over the next two weeks.

Most students at residential universities will begin in mid- to late August, the system said. Some schools will halt in-person instruction by Thanksgiving, but others may continue to hold face-to-face classes for the entire term. Still to be determined are the mix of “residential students” and “remote students” at each school, as well as plans for athletics.

The system serves about 172,000 students statewide, from Frostburg State University in the west to the University Maryland-Eastern Shore.

Morgan State University in Baltimore and St. Mary’s College of Maryland, both public, are not part of the system.

Colleges and universities nationwide were forced to switch to remote instruction in March as the virus crisis intensified. Students stuck at home since then are growing anxious to know whether they will <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/05/25/georgetown-maryland-virginia-reopen-coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_148" target=_blank>be allowed to return to campus. </a>

Nick Anderson

At Crown Pawnbrokers on 14th Street NW, Michael Crown stood wearing a face mask and latex gloves in the entryway of the business his great-grandfather founded as a tailor shop in the 1930s. The store had survived the 1968 riots following the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. After closing at the beginning of the pandemic, it is trying to survive social distancing, with a cone and “X” marks on the sidewalk indicating where customers should stand.

“Not a lot of people are working right now,” Crown said. “We’re still here giving out loans for people in need.”

Though the shop was empty Friday and had been hurt by the emptying out of downtown D.C., Crown said business was steady after the weathered a run on video game systems during the shutdown. A pawnshop is, after all, an essential financial institution. Crown offers four-month loans at 5 percent interest per month, with customers providing items such as jewelry or saxophones as collateral.

Those he serves need cash for transportation, “or just food,” he said — many loans are for less than $100. He expected a rush on the first of the month, when people buy back the items they pawned in previous weeks to get by.

“If you come by Monday at 9 a.m., there will be a line,” Crown said. “Everyone will be receiving their checks.”

Crown wasn’t sure what would happen next. He thought the city had opened too quickly amid a not-that-dramatic drop in coronavirus cases and said he has done all he can to make the store safe — installing plexiglass and having employees wear face shields. Even if the city moves past its Phase 1 reopening, he plans to keep the protections in place.

“We’re trying to get it back to normal again,” he said. “We’re here for the long run. Obviously.”

The District, Maryland and Virginia surpassed a combined 100,000 coronavirus cases Friday as they reported 2,457 new infections, as well as 65 new deaths.

There are now 102,059 coronavirus cases in the region and 4,284 virus-related deaths.

The District recorded 46 new cases and seven new fatalities Friday, bringing its cumulative infections to 8,538 and its death toll to 460.

Virginia added 1,132 new cases, raising its total to 42,533. The state also reported 20 new deaths, increasing its fatality count to 1,358.

Maryland saw 1,279 new infections Friday and 38 new fatalities, raising its total number of cases to 50,988 and its number of deaths to 2,466.

A <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/05/29/coronavirus-has-infected-100000-people-dc-maryland-virginia/?itid=lk_inline_manual_164" target=_blank>Washington Post analysis</a> of cases in the Washington region showed that 6 in every 1,000 residents have tested positive for the disease, and that communities of color have been disproportionately affected.

Hannah Natanson

The cobblestones lining the District’s Southwest Waterfront remained mostly free of foot traffic Friday as the lunch hour neared.

Outdoor chairs at Hank’s Oyster Bar and Mi Vida remained stacked up. Both establishments, like the majority of restaurants on The Wharf, are waiting to welcome customers, despite the mayor’s order.

But Canopy Central, Kirwan’s, Kaliwa, Lupo Marino and Whiskey Charlie opened their rooftops and patios Friday.

D.C. police officers and National Guardsmen paced beside the water, unsure if the beautiful weather and the end of the stay-at-home order would bring the massive crowds they have seen on the news in places such as Ocean City, Md.

Until Friday, they were politely asking anyone who sat down to please keep moving. Now, two women lounged on a bench right beside them, their masks pulled down around their necks.

“If we are all careful and respectful, the world can open up,” said JoAnn Lamphere, 67. She met her walking companion, 84-year-old Barbara Peirce, through the aging-in-place community group Southwest Village.

The two have been taking walks together throughout the pandemic, but today was the first day the Wharf’s piers weren’t blocked off to pedestrians.

With two trekking poles to help her, Peirce shuffled her Velcro shoes down the wooden ramps to admire the views of the water. Peirce said she didn’t feel nervous about the city reopening. She may go to a restaurant if she can sit outside.

The Open City diner was still closed. The main gates to the National Zoo remain barred. And across Connecticut Avenue, the shops that normally see heavy foot traffic this time of year had only a trickle of customers.

D.C., Northern Virginia begin gradual reopening, but some businesses remain closed; coronavirus infects 100,000 in region

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