Denver will institute a 10 p.m. closure for restaurants and clubs across the city while urging residents to go home at the same time, Mayor Michael Hancock announced Friday.

“I’m not going to mince any words here when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus,” he said. “We’re on a very dangerous path.”

Hancock said the order wasn’t a curfew. It will be instituted for 30 days and will take effect Sunday.

He warned the city is heading toward another stay-at-home order unless the situation changes.

The problem, he said, is people gathering together. He called a shelter-in-place order a “blunt instrument” that was successful in the spring.

“Restricting hours where alcohol can be consumed is another piece of the overall strategy,” he said, because people “become less inhibited the more they drink and the later they’re out.”

The 30-day timeline for the latest order will cross over with Thanksgiving; Hancock said the city wasn’t “canceling” the holiday.

Cases have spiked across the state and in the Denver metro area in particular.

Denver reported its most cases ever in a single day Wednesday, with 547.

In total, 135 people are hospitalized in Denver proper, the most since early May, and hospitals have warned they’re on track to pass their previous peaks.

Adams and Arapahoe counties have also set records in the past two weeks.

Since mid-October, the counties have instituted their own tighter restrictions, just before the state mandated more strictures.

Capacity for indoor events and spaces has been slashed in Denver, and residents must wear masks even in outdoor settings.

Several metro-area school districts have suspended parts or all in-person learning, and Denver Public Schools has limited its instruction to its youngest students.