COVID-19 Pandemic Update: Rising Coronavirus Cases Spur Warning of a Second Wave
- Global Covid-19 cases have hit 31,615,836, while deaths have reached 971,116
- Rising coronavirus case numbers in many states spur warning of an autumn surge
- Germany adds 11 regions to travel warning list
- France orders bars and restaurants shut-in Marseilles, Paris on “high alert”
- Eiffel Tower reopens to tourists for the first time since the start of the pandemic
- Irish outbreak worsens
- New York Metropolitan Opera scraps 2020-2021 season
- The annual Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop will be virtual this year
- CDC director hints at new guidance on aerosols
- The Head of the FDA advisory committee recuses herself from COVID vaccine review
- Fauci tells Congress that a vaccine will likely be approved by December
- The US Covid-19 cases nearly 7 million as the death toll topples past 200,000, a level that was once “unfathomable”, according to the Associated Press, roughly equivalent to one “9/11” per day for 67 days.
- UK PM Boris Johnson unveiled new measures to slow a resurgence in the UK’s outbreak and warned that if the measures aren’t effective, that the UK will return to full lockdown
- Escalating COVID lockdown measures, fading stimulus measures and a disorderly hard Brexit will push the U.K. economy into major contraction
- Post-Labor Day Weekend surge continues in the US, deaths increased by 438, compared with just 270 the day before with California cases climbing to 2,630 yesterday (compared with +3,294 for the prior day), while deaths increased by 53, vs. 31 a day ago
- Trump moves more money to ‘Operation Warp Speed’
- Wisconsin Governor Evers declared a public health emergency and extended an order to wear face masks into November 1st
- Missouri governor, an opponent of mandatory masks, has COVID-19
- Finland to deploy corona-sniffing dogs at airports
- NYC warns of new hotspots that require “urgent action”: 4.71% increase in Midwood, Borough Park, and Bensonhurst, a 3.69% increase in Far Rockaway, 2.24% increase in Kew Gardens, and a 2% increase in Williamsburg
- Mayor de Blasio furloughs 9k workers
- France to announce new COVID restrictions
- Greece on brink of lockdown as COVID cases hit a new record high
- Japan on track to approve new COVID drug
- Indonesia reports another daily record-breaking of COVID cases
- China, Japan to ease travel restrictions on foreigners
- Goldman Sachs analysts have come up with the following chart to measure the level of COVID-19 restrictions in place in the US. Right now, it’s swinging back toward more restrictions as states move to curb an expected “fall surge” as college students return home
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