NEW YORK, June 19 — Troubling spikes in coronavirus infection rates were reported today in several US states, mainly in the South and West, a day before President Donald Trump was due to preside over an Oklahoma campaign rally that will be America’s largest indoor gathering in months. Wall...
Saturday, 20 Jun 2020 09:03 AM MYT
Wall Street jitters over a resurgence in Covid-19 cases as states moved to reopen long-stifled commerce and ease social-distancing measures helped drive down major US stock indexes, reversing earlier gains. He said the latest wave of cases has put Arizona’s major hospitals at or near capacity, and placed the Southwestern state on track to surpass New York at its peak on a per-capita basis.
Four were averaging double-digit rates — Arizona at 17 per cent, Alabama at 12 per cent, Washington state at 11 per cent and South Carolina at 10 per cent. The dozen others were led by Utah, Texas, Mississippi, Florida and Georgia, all averaging rates of 7.5 per cent or higher.Arizona, where doctors and public health administrators have called for making face coverings mandatory in public, reported a record 3,246 new infections over the previous 24 hours, nearly twice those tallied on Wednesday.
“The more community transmission there is, the larger the risk that it infects somebody who is vulnerable. There are quite a lot of old people in Florida and in Arizona,” Hanage said.
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