This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for September 10th, 2020.

Starting September 14, the U.S. government will stop conducting COVID-19 screenings of arriving international travelers. Such screenings have taken place across 15 select airports since January and included temperature checks and health questionnaires. The routing of flights from "high-risk" countries into these airports will also end Monday.

If you want to trick or treat door to door this Halloween in L.A. County, you can do it without getting a ticket, but it’s still not encouraged. Yesterday the county health department said door to door trick or treat would be prohibited, but today, the Sheriff said that will not be enforced.

The Director of the National Institutes of Health told a Senate committee any decisions around the release of a vaccine will be based purely on science or he "will have no part of it." Dr. Francis Collins did add he has cautious optimism at least one vaccine will have emerged and turned out to be effective by the end of 2020.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the prohibition on indoor dining in NYC will be lifted Sept. 30. It was one of few places in the nation still with such a ban. Restaurants will be able to operate indoor dining at 25% capacity.

The British government backed measures it hopes will lower the worry about new cases, especially in young adults. That includes a ban on social gatherings of more than six people in England, indoors or outdoors, a ban that will be legally enforced.

France’s prime minister is self-isolating. He came into contact with the director of the Tour de France, who’s tested positive. After months of decline, France is facing a resurgence, with a daily average of 7,000 cases for the last 7 days and an increase of patients in intensive care.

The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Chattahoochee, GA. East Feliciana, LA. Livingston, MO. Luce, MI. Willacy, TX. Lincoln, AR. Pawnee, KS. Rosebud, MT. And new on the list Harrisonburg, VA and Kleberg, TX. Countries with the most cases in the last 7 days per capita: Aruba, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahrain, Argentina, Costa Rica, Montenegro, Maldives, Spain, and Kuwait is new on the top 10.

There’ve been 6,359,313 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and 190,784 deaths. The 10 states with highest cumulative case counts: California with 747,017. Texas with 667,500. Florida 652,259. New York 441,154. Georgia 287,300. Illinois 255,613. Arizona 206,541. New Jersey 194,994. North Carolina 179,536. And Tennessee with 166,635 confirmed cases.

The 5 Countries with the most new cases as of yesterday: India 95,529. United States 35,244. Brazil 34,208. Argentina 12,259. And Spain 8,866.

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

The states with the most new deaths reported as COVID-related: Florida 202. California 155. Texas 126. Michigan 76. Georgia 58. North Carolina 45. Mississippi 38. Tennessee 35. And Arizona and South Carolina at 30.

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