The new coronavirus has killed more than 725,000 people worldwide.
More than 19.5 million people internationally have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to knowledge compiled through the Center for Science and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual figures are thought to be much higher due to lack of evidence, many unreported cases, and suspicions that some national governments hide or minimize the scope of their epidemics.
The United States is the worst-affected country, with more than 4.99 million cases diagnosed and at least 162,421 deaths.
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Brazil on Saturday is the time when the country records 100,000 deaths by COVID-19, according to its ministry of fitness.
The official death toll in the country is 100,477 after reporting 905 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Only the United States, with more than 162,000, had in the past surpassed six figures. Mexico, with just over 51,000 deaths, is the third largest in the world.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has received criticism, including members of his government, for his lax attitude towards the virus: he tested positive and is recovering.
Bolsonaro, like its close ally, President Donald Trump, has touted hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for coronavirus, even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned not to use it.
A diagnosis of coronavirus ended up being a blessing to Minnesota Vikings supporter Cameron Smith.
Smith, who was due to start his season this fall, recently tested positive for COVID-19. But after going to the doctor for additional tests, doctors discovered an unrelated center problem.
You will go through open-center surgery to repair a bicuspid aortic valve.
The deal will be Smith’s for next season, but is expected to make a full recovery and play football again.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he had tested negative for coronavirus, according to a statement from his office.
DeWine had tested positive in the previous week, but later in the day he announced that in a separate check he had tested negative.
DeWine’s original verification was a quick-result verification and, according to the Associated Press, was considered less accurate than the one it performed later.
He described the first positive result as “false positive.”
DeWine’s wife, Fran, had the results.
The Florida Department of Health reported an increase in hospitalizations and deaths On Saturday.
Hospitalizations have increased to 521 in more than 24 hours, with 6,991 hospitalizations active, while deaths have increased to 187, bringing the total to 8,238, according to the department.
Higher cases were conducted through 8,502 and 86,175 tests. The state has now noticed that 526577 showed cases of coronavirus.
Bay County, of which Panama City is the seat of the county, has a state positivity rate of 16.3%.
However, Miami-Dade County, the state’s most populous county, had the number of new instances starting in 1801.
Princeton University will not bring freshman and freshman students to campus in the fall, as originally planned, due to cases of coronavirus that have “exploded” in recent weeks, according to a report by the university president.
Classes will now be completely remote for undergraduate academics in the fall semester, President Christopher L. Eisgruber said. Graduate academics will be able to enter the campus due to “different training and residency programs”.
“This combination of fitness disorders and restrictions will particularly decrease the educational price of campus fun. It will also make this fun confining and unsightly for most students,” Eisgruber said.
He also noted that academics in 34 states will be quarantined upon arrival in New Jersey for 14 days and that the state’s slow opening has been suspended for fear of a build-up of cases.
“New Jersey’s cautious technique has helped the pandemic, however, the principles of public fitness and state rules still restrict a lot of what we can do on campus,” Eisgruber said.
The president said the university will welcome academics who cannot return home or examine from home, as well as a limited number of academics with past-approved exceptions, who recognize their desire to be on campus for their senior or other thesis. Research. essential for your curricula.
Eisgruber said that while he knows the news is “daunting and disappointing,” the university is doing everything it can to prepare to welcome academics in the spring.
New Jersey is among the hardest hit states in the early stages of the pandemic, but has since experienced some of the lowest daily infection rates. Gov. Phil Murphy has recently warned that he is opposed to expanding the numbers.
As the debate continues over the reopening of schools across the country, many young people are already back in school or about to begin. One state that made headlines this week is Georgia, where images of crowded corridors appearing unmasked academics have gone viral.
Today, one of Peach State’s largest school districts reports that a hundred of its students are suspected and tested positive for COVID-19, even before they begin face-to-face classes. These figures were provided to the district through the Georgia Department of Health.
Cobb County Superintendent of Schools Chris Ragsdale said the district will remain virtual “until public knowledge of physical fitness in Cobb County and the recommendation of state and local public fitness officials recommend it,” according to ABC News Atlanta’s associate WSB. The district, which has about 113,000 students, begins at a distance on August 17.
Georgia exceeded 200,000 COVID-19 cases on Aug. 5, according to an internal Federal Emergency Management Agency memo obtained by ABC News. It took four months for the state to reach 100,000 cases and just four weeks to reach 200,000.
Cobb County, according to the Georgia Department of Health, has more than 13,000 cases of coronavirus, with 1,363 existing hospitalizations. The county has at least 317 deaths from COVID-19, the highest number in the state, only the 420 deaths in Fulton County.
The state has more than 209,000 cases shown, with at least 4,117 deaths, to Johns Hopkins.
ABC News’ Scott Withers contributed to the report.
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