COVID-19 Pandemic Update: France Suffers Most COVID-19 Deaths Since Spring; Finance Minister Tests Positive

- Global COVID cases exceed 30 million
- New York City Prepares for a Second Wave
- NYC Mayor delays school reopening for 2nd time
- The U.S. reported 39,617 new cases for Tuesday. The nation’s death toll approached 200,000.
- Bank of America’s latest assessment is only 12% of the population has immunity, which is far below the critical 60% “herd immunity” threshold.
- The 7-day average of new cases has surged from a low of around 60 to 7,800 in Spain and 225 to 6,000 in France.
- Austria sees most new cases since March
- India reports another nearly 95k new cases
- Italy cases climb for 6th week
- South Korea confirms another 153 new cases
- France suffers another 10k+ new cases; 50 deaths
- Finance Minister Brunp Le Maire tests positive
- UK mulls COVID ‘circuit breaker’
- London weighs ‘localized’ lockdown
- The Netherlands recorded a new 24-hour record of cases
- Denmark, 454 new infections on Friday was close to a record of 473 in April
- Israel entered its second lockdown, inspired by a surge in new cases
- Moderna reveals vaccine won’t be widely available until next year
- CDC Chief predicts a Covid-19 vaccine may not be available to the general public until next summer as the daily number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. climbed to 40,000
- Wisconsin reported a record daily tally just as Trump was holding another campaign rally, while hospitalizations and deaths also spiked

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