Beginning tomorrow at midnight, bars will be closed for business until further notice. Restaurants can remain open, but will be required to close daily at 10 p.m.

Over the holiday weekend through this morning, we received 115 complaints for mask ordinance violations and Back to Business violations. To submit your complaint, please call 311.

Ordinance No. 5751, or the “Mask Ordinance,” is in effect.

Earlier today, we received more outside validation that wearing a mask or facial covering in public works and is worth the trouble of wearing.

The City Court Clerk’s office will enable Memphians to pay off old traffic tickets and, for many, regain driving privileges.

The City of Memphis is directing e-scooter operators (Bird, Lime, and OjO) to cease customer operations during specific time periods Downtown for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Recently, I mentioned how much testing Tennessee and Shelby County are doing relative to other parts of the country. As you can see in the chart in this update, we’ve performed close to 130,000 tests through June.

As I mentioned to you on Sunday, the number of COVID-19 infected patients in our hospitals is rising.

As I said in yesterday’s update and as Dr. Jain told you last week, wearing a facial covering when you go out in public is crucial to fighting this virus.

In today’s update, I asked Dr. Manoj Jain, the City’s contracted medical advisor, to share some quick thoughts on the importance of masking.

As the numbers of our daily reported cases have risen, it has caused some discussion of whether or not we should revert back to Phase I of the Back-to-Business plan.