Lockdown USA: Hundreds protest California beach closure

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Hundreds of protestors have swarmed the streets in Huntington Beach in California to demand an end to coronavirus lockdown rules.

People packed out the streets in the city south of Los Angeles, defying an order to close all of Orange County's beaches which was issued after "concerning" images emerged of large crowds of beachgoers.

The US now has more 1.1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus and the death toll stands at 65,603.

Pictures show protesters waving American flags from their car windows and carrying signs reading "Open Cali now", backing up traffic for at least a mile.

Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/huntington-beach-california-protests-a4430131.html

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