The United States has recorded at least 120,168 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend of July 4.
COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China in December, had infected 11,317,637 people worldwide and 2,852,807 in the US as of Sunday, up from 2,732,639 on Thursday by night before the long weekend, according to official figures compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. It had claimed 531,729 lives worldwide and 129,718 in the United States.
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‘It makes me angry. You know, I understand he has a difficult job, but it’s dangerous not to send a clear message to the Americans. ”
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New cases increased 42% in Florida over the past week, 32% in Arizona, 40% in Montana, 37% in the Virgin Islands, 33% in Idaho, 30% in South Carolina, 29% in Texas, 28% in Arizona, and up to 21% in California during the same period, according to this Washington Post count.
The seven-day moving average of new cases was 48,361 on Saturday, up from 11,740 a week ago, the newspaper added. Austin Mayor Steve Adler told CNN’s T:
Sunday’s “State of the Union” program: “If we don’t change the trajectory, we are two weeks away from our hospitals being overwhelmed.”
Citing President Donald Trump’s comments that COVID-19 would disappear, and the July 4 meeting at the White House with many guests who were not socially estranged or wearing masks, Adler, a Democrat, said: “I am angry. You know, I understand you have a difficult job, but it is dangerous not to send a clear message to Americans. ”
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New York has had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, followed by New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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So far, New York has had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the US (32,157), followed by New Jersey (15,189), Massachusetts (8,172), Illinois (7,014), Pennsylvania (6,749), California (6,334) and Michigan (6,218). Texas has reported 2,607 deaths from the virus.
Florida reported 10,059 new cases on Sunday after reporting 11,458 new cases on Saturday, which was surpassed only by the daily peak of 11,571 in New York last April. It confirmed almost 200,111 cases, compared to 190,052 cases the previous day.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades and one of the leading experts on pandemics in the United States for the past four decades, has said that Americans and lawmakers must reconsider some of their actions.
On Thursday, Fauci said the virus could be mutating to become more transmissible. “We don’t have a connection between whether an individual does worse with this or not. It simply appears that the virus replicates better and may be more transmissible. But this is still in the stage of trying to confirm that. “
Fauci focused on three main flaws from both the public and the authorities: many states have reopened too quickly, people are not complying with social distancing rules, and authorities could do a better job of tracing contacts to track people. who have been in contact with those who test positive.
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Florida reported 10,059 new cases on Sunday after reporting 11,458 new cases on Saturday.
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While the progress of COVID-19 has slowed in states like New York, where most cases in the US are still focused, confirmed cases of coronavirus have increased in nearly 40 US states, With some of the most populous states like Florida, Texas and California. key concern.
Florida has seen an increase in hospitalizations in recent days, and while most of them were among seniors, an 11-year-old from Miami-Dade County died of complications from the disease, the state’s youngest person in die from COVID -19 and third child in the state to die from the disease.
The Dow Jones DJIA Industrial Index,
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They rose on Friday, after better-than-expected unemployment figures amid a surge in coronaviruses in states that have eased restrictions.
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