Coronavirus cases in the U.S. continued to surge Monday, with some states instituting new measures to stem transmission, while some countries where the virus once appeared to be contained imposed new restrictions to combat fresh outbreaks.
More than 135,600 people have died of the disease in the U.S., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, and more than 3.36 million have been infected. World-wide, more than 573,000 have died and more than 13.1 million have been infected, according to Johns Hopkins data.
California imposed on Monday new restrictions, including an immediate halt to indoor activities in restaurants, bars, museums, zoos and movie theaters, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest after New York, said Monday that it would start the school year online.
Oregon banned most indoor social gatherings of more than 10 people, and Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, said Monday that the state would require people to wear masks outside when they can’t properly social distance.
Florida, which saw daily new infections jump over the weekend, joined Arizona, Texas and Michigan in recently putting restrictions on bars. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who said last week that he had no doubt schools could operate safely, said Monday that parents should have the option of virtual schooling. Florida’s department of health reported 12,343 infections in state residents on Sunday, bringing the state’s total to 282,435.
Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering
Despite the surge in new infections, Disney World in Florida opened over the weekend. By contrast, Disney’s Hong Kong park will close less than a month after it reopened, the company said, after an increase in infections there caused officials to institute new restrictions and cancel large events.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said Monday that the state would start tracking travelers from states on New York’s quarantine list. Air travelers from those states will be required to fill out detailed contact forms upon landing, with fines and a summons for noncompliance, Mr. Cuomo said. More than a dozen states, including Texas, California and Arizona, are on New York’’s quarantine list. Travelers from those states are required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.
Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering
While the pandemic has infected millions of Americans, it has also cost millions their health care. Some 5.4 million workers who were laid off between February and May became uninsured, according to a study released Monday by the health-care consumer group Families USA. Previously, the highest one-year increase in uninsured adults was in 2008-2009, when 3.9 million became uninsured, the group found.
Outside the U.S., some governments that had controlled the virus have begun implementing new restrictions as infections rise once more.
Hong Kong, which had no local infections for three weeks until an outbreak that began July 5, is seeing a steady increase in infections. The city has racked up more than 180 locally contracted cases since the most recent outbreak began, including 41 on Monday. Its total infection count is 1,522, with eight dead.
Sources: Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering; the Lancet; Associated Press; U.S. Census
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The city has ordered gyms, beauty salons and bars to close for at least seven days and told restaurants to limit groups of diners to four, with dining rooms closed by 6 p.m. Hong Kong is now requiring masks on all public transportation and will require arrivals from designated high-risk countries to show proof they tested negative before flying. The size limit on public gatherings, which had been 50, will be reduced to four.
People in England will be required to wear face masks in stores and supermarkets from July 24. Government officials have gone back and forth on the issue, but will make it mandatory. In Scotland, which runs its own public-health policy, and other countries such as Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain, it is already compulsory to wear face coverings in stores.
As a whole, the U.K. has Europe’s highest coronavirus death toll, with almost 45,000 confirmed fatalities. Health experts at the Academy of Medical Sciences released a report saying the country faces a potentially deadlier second wave of infections later in the year that they warn could claim up to 120,000 lives over a nine-month period.
France celebrated Bastille Day in muted fashion. There were none of the parades that usually mark the occasion, with President Emmanuel Macron instead paying tribute to health workers and reviewing troops spaced out on the Place de la Concorde in Paris after a flypast by military aircraft.
South Korea said Tuesday that it added 33 cases, bringing its total to 13,512. In a welcome development, the southwestern city of Gwangju, site of an outbreak, reported no new cases for the first time in 17 days. With an uptick in imported cases, South Korea has tightened travel policy and requirements from visitors from four countries: Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan.
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Australia’s total cases topped 10,000 after 270 new infections were diagnosed in Victoria state, where authorities have imposed tight restrictions on movement in Melbourne for six weeks. The clusters in Victoria have prompted neighboring states to strengthen measures designed to stop the spread of the pathogen locally. South Australia said it would no longer proceed with plans to open its borders to residents in New South Wales, which includes Sydney, and the Australian Capital Territory, which includes the nation’s capital, Canberra.
India reported 28,498 new cases on Tuesday, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 906,752, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The figure was down slightly from the single-day record 28,701 reported Monday, but in keeping with a surge over the past week, in which daily tallies have exceeded 22,000. India reported 553 new deaths, with total deaths at 23,727.
A barber and his client wear face masks in the Hollywood Barber Shop in Los Angeles, shortly before closing amid new restrictions.
Photo: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesIndia has been gradually lifting the national lockdown imposed in late March even though the number of infections has been steadily rising. But some states have instituted their own lockdowns. Authorities imposed Tuesday a seven-day lockdown in the southern city of Bangalore and a 10-day lockdown in the western city of Pune.
“Too many countries are headed in the wrong direction,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference in Geneva on Monday. “The virus remains public enemy No. 1, but the actions of many governments and people do not reflect this.” He added, “Mixed messages from leaders are undermining the most critical ingredient of any response: trust.”
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