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Coronavirus news, updates, hotspots and information for 09-04-2020


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This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for September 4th, 2020.


Los Angeles County started allowing additional re-openings. Hair salons and barbershops can operate indoors at 25% capacity with social distancing, and employees masked. And school can offer in-school services K-12 starting Sept 14 for small groups of students like those with disabilities and those with English as a second language.


Colleges and universities in the U.S. are trying to control clusters of infections on their campuses, around 51,000 so far. Dr. Anthony Fauci is now urging colleges: if at all possible, don’t send students home. Dr. Deborah Birx also cautioned college students could become a source of outbreaks beyond campuses.


San Francisco International Airport employees can now get a rapid-result test, less than an hour, at a new facility at the International Terminal. Meanwhile New York plans on testing sites specifically for passengers at JFK and LaGuardia.


Batman has tested positive, or at least the actor playing him in the newest movie. Robert Pattinson tested positive just days after filming resumed outside London. Production has again been shut down.


The British government is investing in a coronavirus test that gives results in as little as 20 minutes. Britain’s also looking at repeat testing of people without symptoms. The government says it’ll spend up to $660 million to achieve mass testing, a project called “Operation Moonshot.”


Thailand had not had a confirmed locally transmitted case in 100 days. But now a prison inmate tested positive. Before his arrest, the 37-year-old man lived in Bangkok and worked as a DJ in several bars.


The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita as of September 3rd according to The New York Times: Wayne, TN. Chattahoochee, GA. Lincoln, AR. East Feliciana, LA. Radford, VA. Rosebud, MT. Clay, SD. Pawnee, KS. Dickens, TX. And Muskogee, OK. Countries with the most cases in the last 7 days per capita: Aruba, Turks and Caicos Islands, Maldives, Peru, Argentina, Bahrain, Bahamas, Israel, Costa Rica, and Brazil.


There’ve been 6,149,265 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and 186,785 deaths. The 10 states with highest cumulative case counts: California with 725,943. Texas with 645,422. Florida 637,013. New York 437,107. Georgia 277,288. Illinois 241,704. Arizona 203,953. New Jersey 192,973. North Carolina 172,201. And Tennessee with 159,546 confirmed cases.


The 5 Countries with the most new cases for September 2nd: India 84,156. Brazil 44,728. United States 44,507. Argentina 12,026. And Spain 8,959.


The top 10 countries with highest overall cumulative case counts: The United States, Brazil, India, Russia, Peru, Colombia overtakes South Africa, Mexico, Spain, and Argentina. 


The states with the most new deaths reported as COVID-related on September 2nd: Texas 189. California 167. Florida 152. Georgia 73. Arizona 65. Ohio 46. Nevada 27. Illinois 24. Arkansas 20. And Tennessee 18.


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