Hey, great way to start a morning... Florida just came in fourth in daily new cases at 15,000 in the Covid-19 sweepstakes after the U.S., Brazil, and India. Tell me that's not an achievement. Hey, no wonder Disney World is reopening there! Tom
"Florida broke the national record Sunday for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the beginning of the pandemic, adding more than 15,000 cases as its daily average death toll continued to also rise.
"According to state Department of Health statistics, 15,299 people tested positive, for a total of 269,811 cases, and 45 deaths were recorded. California had the previous record of daily positive cases 11,694, set on Wednesday. New York had 11,571 on 15 April.
"The numbers come at the end of a grim, record-breaking week as Florida reported 514 fatalities, an average of 73 per day. Three weeks ago, the state was averaging 30 deaths per day. Since the pandemic began in March, 4,346 people have died in Florida of Covid-19, the state says.
"As of Sunday, there were more than 3.2 million total confirmed coronavirus cases across the US and 135,066 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tracker.
"Arizona – another virus hotspot, which is simultaneously in the grip of a dangerous heat wave - reported 2,537 new cases and 86 deaths on Sunday.
"It was also reported that three teachers from Arizona who shared a classroom contracted coronavirus, despite social distancing and wearing masks and gloves. One of the teachers has since died.
"In California, the total death toll climbed to more than 7,000 as the infection rate rose to its highest level since April.
"Meanwhile, Texas reached 258,000 total cases on Saturday and 3,192 deaths. A 30-year-old man who thought the coronavirus was a hoax reportedly died in San Antonio after attending a “Covid party”.
"If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most new cases in a day behind the United States, Brazil and India, according to a Reuters analysis...."
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