COVID-19 Pandemic Update: Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi Tests Positive For COVID-19; France Suffers Another Alarming Jump
- Global cases near 26 million, Johns Hopkins University shows more than 25.7 million people have been diagnosed worldwide, while 857,015 have died
- France sees another jump in news COVID cases – 7,017 new cases compared with 5,429 last week
- Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has COVID
- Midwest outbreak worsening – startling acceleration in new cases from four (GOP-controlled) states: Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Alabama
- California Covid-19 outbreak moves to the central valley
- New Jersey COVID exodus accelerating; out of every 10 moves, 7 have been households leaving the “The Garden State”, or nearly three times as many moved out than moved in
- The COVID pandemic-induced summer of escape from New York continues as moving companies are so busy they’re in an unprecedented situation of having to turn people away
- India outbreak still on track to outpace US, Brazil
- Maryland moves to reopen all businesses Friday
- Trump says will extend the travel eviction ban
- Roche plans launch of rapid test in Europe
- Texas will reopen businesses next week
- MLB delays another game
- The Florida Department of Health has cut all ties with Quest Diagnostics after the state says the company did not report nearly 75,000 Covid-19 test results dating back to April
- Arizona cases tick higher
- Brazil slides back into recession as COVID rages
- Argentina’s positivity rate surges
- NYC Mayor strikes deal with teachers unions
- Dr. Scott Atlas denies “herd immunity” reports
- Russia cases top 1 million, 4th country to do so
- Sweden considers new local restrictions
- WHO warns countries can’t just abandon COVID protections
- Obese people at much higher risk of death, study shows
- China mulls joining WHO vaccine program as the US pulls out
- Hong Kong pressures residents to submit to testing scheme
- Trump said he would use the administration’s quarantine authority to keep renters in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic as a way to prevent a full-on eviction crisis
- Dr. Fauci warns about the risks of another wave emerging in the fall, as falling temperatures force more Americans inside
- The 2020-2021 Flu Season begins October 1, 2020
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