COVID-19 Pandemic Update: Texas Suffers Record Jump In COVID-19 Deaths, Brazil Reports Record 67k New Cases

Summary:

• The Americas saw over 900,000 new cases and nearly 22,000 deaths were reported last week, with Brazil, Mexico, and the US reporting most of the new cases and deaths
• Vermont lowest case count in the country
• Arizona hospitalizations fall for 4th day
• Florida daily cases below 10k for first time in a week
• Florida suffers another 134 deaths, ICU capacity hits 130%
• Victoria reports 374 new cases
• Russia reports just 5,842 new cases
• Beijing requires all foreign travelers to show negative COVID-19 test results
• India’s Delhi region confirms fewest new cases in 6 weeks
• The US reports roughly 62k new cases yesterday
• Iran suffers record death toll
• The EU has reportedly reached a deal on rescue fund
• Texas sets a new daily death record
• Brazil reports 60k plus cases
• 35 of 58 California counties on no-school ‘watchlist’
• Ohio Gov signs mandatory mask order
• California reports another daily record of 12,807
• The world passes 15million COVID cases
• Arizona reports 1,926 new cases
• NY sees fewer new cases than yesterday
• California passes NY in COVID-19 case total
• The US pays $2BN for 100M doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vax candidate