New York City has begun welcoming visitors to the Big Apple with a quarantine retreat thursday, while Los Angeles will begin cutting off electricity and water from homes.
In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive, the last governor to be inflamed with coronavirus. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced that he had the disease several weeks ago.
In New York, not doing 40 14 days when one of the 34 states considered COVID-19 hot spots arrives can result in a fine of up to $10,000. Sheriff Joe Fucito said the goal of the checkpoints was not to aim, but to teach citizens of other states, as well as returning New Yorkers.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti said utilities would be closed to homes and where “flagrant” parties are ongoing.
“We’ve already closed all the bars and clubs,” Garcetti said. “These big parties at home necessarily have nightclubs.
Meanwhile, the country’s most sensible fitness officer, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said the country’s overall reaction to the pandemic has allowed the number of cases to reach an “unacceptable level,” warns that the United States will continue to “burn” without unified effort. the most sensitive to the virus.
Here are some developments:
? Today’s numbers: The U.S. has recorded more than 158,000 deaths and 4.8 million cases of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 706,000 deaths and 18.8 million cases.
? What we read: a fatal explosion that shook the Lebanese capital, Beirut, put more pressure on the country’s fitness system, which was already lacking a non-public protective apparatus and suffered from more than 5,200 cases of COVID-19.
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive Thursday for coronavirus before expecting to receive President Donald Trump. DeWine passed a COVID-19 check as a component of the protocol to meet with Trump on the runway at Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport. DeWine, 73, has no symptoms, said his workplace in a statement. DeWine, who plans to quarantine him at his home in Cedarville for 14 days, has taken some of the first competitive steps to combat the spread of COVID-19. He was one of the first governors to close bars, restaurants and wineries in March.
– Jackie Borchardt, Jessie Balmert and Jason Lalljee, Cincinnati researcher
The London Marathon, the new massive race interrupted by the global pandemic, when organisers announced Thursday that the vast majority of the 40,000 registered athletes were expected to compete remotely. Elite runners will compete on a closed circuit through a city park. Everyone is invited to participate from “anywhere in the world,” organizers said. The Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon are among dozens of primary races around the world that have had to be postponed, canceled, or switched to virtual races due to social estrangement guidelines.
A black passenger ordered an American Airlines flight to wear an “offensive” mask and said there was an underlying racial problem. Arlinga Johns boarded a flight to St. Louis in Charlotte on July 29 dressed in a “Black Lives Matter” blouse and a mask that read” “(improperio) 12.” The number 12 is a term used to refer to law enforcement or the police. Johns stated that a flight attendant had asked Johns to cover the mask tongue with a new mask provided by the officer. Johns obeyed. The airline says Johns continued to demonstrate the mask in question.
“I think I got the plane because I’m black,” Johns said in an interview with Local 10 News in Florida.
– Sara M Moniuszko
A viral video would show a personal demonstration in Los Angeles for “lifeguards” on July 31 at The Sassafras Saloon in Hollywood, despite the closure of bars in the state and county since early July.
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Police Department showed the U.S. TODAY that two of its officers had attended the ceremony. A clip posted through the activist media organization Knock.LA on Twitter showed that several people answered “yes” after an individual asked, “Are you here for the LASD party?” LASD is the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. The ministry denied organizing the party and said none of its workers attended the rally.
Joshua Bote
Four other people died and nearly a dozen others suffered headaches after swallowing alcohol-based hand sanitizers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that from May to June 30, 15 cases of methanol poisoning were reported in Arizona and New Mexico, and each was related to other people who drank hand sanitizer. The CDC says hand sanitizers involve ethanol or isopropanol as active ingredients, however, some products imported from other countries involve methanol, which “is not an appropriate ingredient”.
The CDC says washing and disinfecting your hands is an effective way to combat the spread of COVID-19, although some others drink it because of its alcohol content.
Dalvin Brown
Facebook got rid of a message from President Trump’s non-public page of a Fox News interview in which he said young people were “almost immune” to COVID-19. This is the first time Facebook has deleted a message from the president for violating its COVID-19 disinformation policies. The message is a “violation of our policies related to COVID’s incorrect destructive information,” Facebook said in a statement.
“The president announced a fact that young people are less vulnerable to coronavirus,” said Courtney Parella, national press undersecretary for Trump’s re-election campaign. “Another day, some other demonstration of Silicon Valley’s obvious bias opposed this president.”
– Jessica Guynn
Employers continue to lay off staff at an all-time rate as the pandemic continues. About 1.2 million other people filed initial unemployment insurance programs, an approximate measure of layoffs, last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday, a substantial decrease of 1.4 million last week and the lowest point since March.
“We believe the story here is that the layoffs caused by the COVID-19 wave in the south and west are falling,” wrote Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, on a note.
– Paul Davidson
New York City began establishing registration checkpoints Thursday to verify that visitors from states with high COVID-19 infection rates are quarantined when they cross the border. The city is calling for life in New York City in 34 states with major cases of coronavirus to be quarantined for 14 days, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The municipal police will intermittently arrest travelers who have visited the states and ask them to complete a State Department of Health traveler form. The first station created for others who arrived at Penn Station, the busiest exercise station in the country.
“They will be reminded that it is obligatory and optional,” de Blasio said. “They will be reminded that non-compliance with quarantine is a violation of state law, and this is accompanied by serious penalties.”
– Joseph Spector
North Korea is quarantined to thousands of others and is sending food and other aid to the southern city of Kaesong, which has been blocked due to considerations of the coronavirus, authorities said. North Korea, which closed its borders and reduced the number of outdoor observers and journalists, says that only one user who recently returned from South Korea would possibly have tested positive. Edwin Salvador, WHO’s representative in North Korea, told The Associated Press that organization meetings are prohibited, that masks are mandatory in public, and that all educational institutions, which add kindergartens, are on extended summer vacations.
The city of Los Angeles will cut off electricity and water from homes and businesses where recurring parties take up position without social estrangement, Mayor Eric Garcetti said. Earlier this week, the county fitness branch banned giant meetings after a high-profile home party where other people piled up without masks. The violation of the order is “punishable by a fine, imprisonment or both,” the branch warned. Garcetti said the cuts in applications will take effect on Friday night.
“If LAPD responds and verifies that a giant collection is taking a position on a property, and we see those homes offending again and again, they will notice and begin the procedure to request that DWP avoid service within the next 48 hours, “Garcetti told me.
Coronavirus testing is dropping nationwide despite an unrelenting rush of new cases and death toll still averaging more than 1,000 per day, according to an analysis of data by the Associated Press. Some experts attribute the decline in testing to the hours of waiting required to get a test in some areas – and days or weeks of waiting sometimes involved in obtaining the results of those test. The number of tests per day slid 3.6% over the past two weeks to 750,000, with the count falling in 22 states. That includes places where the percentage of positive tests are alarmingly high, such as Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Iowa.
“There is a sense of despair,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute.
Hawaii and Puerto Rico set records for new instances in a week, while five states recorded a record number of deaths in a week, according to a USA TODAY investigation of Johns Hopkins’ knowledge through Wednesday. A record number of deaths were reported in Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada and Oklahoma, as well as in Puerto Rico. The good news is that some primary states where cases have been reported in recent weeks, such as California, Florida and Texas, are seeing a decrease in the cases shown.
Mike Stucka
White House working group coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx expressed national considerations about maximum positive testing rates in a personal phone call with state and local officials Wednesday, according to a recording of the call received through the Journalism Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit organization. Baltimore and Atlanta “remain at a very high level,” Birx said in the call. In addition, Kansas City, Missouri, Portland, Oregon, Omaha, Nebraska and California’s Central Valley remain at the highest levels, according to Birx.
“This epidemic is different from the March and April epidemic, as it is found in rural and urban areas,” Birx said.
A new NPR/Ipsos ballot published Thursday found that more than 8 out of 10 teachers are afraid to return to elegance this fall, and two-thirds prefer to teach autumn elegance primarily remotely than in person.
The survey occurs when many school districts prepare to reopen campuses. Some experts are concerned that study rooms are the next incubators for primary coronavirus outbreaks.
A vote held in May through USA TODAY found that one in five teachers say they are unlikely to return to school if their study rooms reopen in the fall, a possible wave of mass resignations.
Facebook got rid of a post on President Trump’s non-public page of a Fox News interview in which he said young people are “almost immune” to COVID-19, citing his disinformation policy.
It was the first time Facebook deleted a message from the president for violating his COVID-19 disinformation policies. Twitter also took action Wednesday night. In question: a video clip of an interview with Fox and Friends, broadcast Wednesday morning, in which Trump said young people return to school because they are “almost immune” or “practically immune” to the disease.
Doctors say young people can catch and transmit the coronavirus, which has killed more than 150,000 people.
– Jessica Guynn
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that it would increase the airline payroll as the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect his business. Trump arrives after 16 senators signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, DN. And., requesting the extension to potentially save tens of thousands of airline jobs that are in jeopardy after the existing investment runs out by the end of September.
“We don’t need to lose our airlines,” Trump told reporters at a White House briefing Wednesday. According to the Airline Pilots Association, more than 8,000 airline pilots have gained notices that they can be placed on leave.
– Curtis Tate
Navajo Nation fitness officials reported 39 cases of COVID-19 and 4 more deaths, bringing the total number of other people inflamed to 9,195 and the number of deaths to 467 on Wednesday night. Navajo Health Ministry officials said 83,527 others were screened for coronavirus and 6,766 recovered. The grand reserve covers portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
When Milwaukee won the 2020 Democratic National Convention more than a year ago, city leaders expected another 50,000 people to come to the city for four days and nights of non-stop politics. Now, even the party candidate isn’t leaving.
Authorities announced Wednesday that Joe Biden would settle for the party’s nod from his home in Delaware, and that the other speakers at the conference would not either in Wisconsin. Organizers cited “the worsening of the coronavirus pandemic.”
“This conference will be different from any past conference in history,” said Joe Solmonese, general manager of the conference. “It will succeed in more people than ever before and, in fact, it will be a conference across america for all Americans, regardless of which party you belong to. Who you voted for in the last election.”
– Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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