Global Pandemic Update: Texas’ COVID-19 Death Toll Tops 5,000 As New Cases Slide To 2-Week Low

Summary:

• Texas passes 5,000 deaths, new cases lowest since July 13
• California reported 8,259 new cases
• Scott Gottlieb says pandemic starting to slow in some parts of the Sun Belt
• Arizona reports the latest COVID numbers – another 1,973 cases, bringing its total to 162,014.
• Florida passes New York, now in 2nd place
• Florida reports another 9,300 new cases
• Spain assures world new outbreak ‘under control’
• UK, France, Norway and a handful of other European countries impose mandatory quarantines on travelers visiting from Spain
• Countries impose travel restrictions on Spain due to worsening outbreak in Catalonia
• Globally, the world saw a pullback in newly confirmed COVID-19 cases from the record numbers seen just a day prior, as the world reported 257,789 new cases over the last 24 hours bringing the global total to 16,292,002, according to Worldometer