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Coronavirus news, updates, hotspots and information for 08-27-2020 COVID-19 AM Alert


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This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for Thursday August 27th, 2020. The island of Oahu in Hawaii is under a mandatory 2-week lockdown. California will not follow updated testing guidelines from the CDC. The new guidelines said those who were asymptomatic, but had been exposed did not need to be tested.   California also announced a new partnership that will increase testing and provide test results in at most two days.  New Jersey will reopen gyms and indoor amusement facilities at 25% capacity next week.   New Mexico resumes indoor dining Saturday.  Moderna released results on Phase I testing for their vaccine candidate. It has proven safe and an immune response was achieved. 


India set a new one-day record with 75,760 new cases. Kenya extended their nationwide curfew for 30 days. New Zealand will begin fining people who don’t wear a mask on public transportation. The World Economic Forum has moved from January to next summer. 


The locations of hotspots and U.S and Country diagnoses in a moment. 

Hotspots displaying faster rates of growth as of August 26th according to The New York Times:  Guam.  Top 10 U.S. counties: Issaquena Mississippi, Pawnee and Harper Kansas, Chattahoochee Georgia, Luce Michigan, Madison and East Feliciana Louisiana, Maverick, Madison and Firestone Texas. Globally: Aruba, Turks and Caicos, Sint Maarten, Maldives, Peru, Bahrain, Colombia, Gibraltar, Argentina, Panama, Brazil, Costa Rica, Israel, Spain, Moldova, Kuwait.

There have been 5,823,685 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and 179,743 deaths.  There were 44,877new cases reported yesterday. The 10 states with highest case counts:   California 687,612, Texas 619,836, Florida 608,714, New York 436,063, Georgia 244,494, Illinois 227,872, Arizona 199,495, New Jersey 192,086, North Carolina 159,708, Louisiana 145,123. 

The 5 Countries with the largest daily increases for August 26th, according to the WHO: India 67,151, Brazil 17,078, Colombia 10,549, Argentina 8,713, Peru 6,112. 

The 10 Countries with highest overall case counts: Brazil 3,717,156, India 3,310,234, Russia 972,972, South Africa 615,701, Peru 607,382, Mexico 573,888, Colombia 572,243, Spain 419,849, Chile 402,365, Argentina 370,188. 

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