COVID-19 Global Pandemic Update: Texas Reports Record Jump In COVID-19 Infections As US Total Tops 2 Million

Summary:

• NYT says US COVID cases top 2 million
• Barely an hour after President Trump announced plans to hold campaign rallies in Arizona, the state where the virus appears to be spreading at an alarming rate
• Texas reports 2,504 new confirmed coronavirus cases. This number of new cases dwarfs a previous record high of new cases per day.
• Arkansas to enter phase 2 next week
• Rhode Island Gov says students will return to schools on Aug. 31
• National Guard soldiers – first in Minnesota, and then in Washington DC – have tested positive for the virus, most experts say that any spike in new cases associated with the protests likely won’t manifest until later this week. 
• Mumbai surpasses case total from Wuhan as Indian outbreak worsens
• Bangladesh, Jakarta reports record jump in new cases
• Germany expands warning on international travel to non-European countries
• In Texas, North and South Carolina, California, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah, and Arizona, there is an increasing number of patients under supervised care since the holiday weekend because of coronavirus infections. The spikes generally began in the past couple weeks and in most states are trending higher.
• AP weighs in on WHO’s latest flip-flop
• Gottlieb warns Texas on the brink of losing control of the outbreak
• India’s financial capital, Mumbai, has recorded 51,000 cases of COVID, taking it past the peak in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged.
• Indonesia after relaxing a much-less-stringent lockdown in Jakarta reported another record jump in newly reported cases
• Bangladesh, a densely populated country that neighbors India, also reported a record jump in new cases
• Greater New York area continues to bend the curve