US sees biggest but single-working day surge in coronavirus cases

AMERICA recorded 45,242 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the most significant single-day time increase of the pandemic, according to a Reuters tally, bringing the full total number of Americans who've tested positive to at least 2.48 million.

The brand new record for positive COVID-19 tests comes as several states at the guts of a fresh surge in infections took steps again from efforts to ease restrictions on businesses. COVID-19 may be the respiratory illness due to the coronavirus.

Governor Greg Abbott ordered bars across Texas to close by mid-day time and required restaurants to limit indoor seating capacity to 50%, while Florida condition officials told bars to immediately give up serving alcohol on their premises.

Abbot’s announcement stunned Texas bar owners, who said the governor, a Republican in his second term, had given them little notice. Tag Martinez, owner of a Lubbock beer garden, learned only when friends texted him the news headlines at around 8 a.m.

“I spent thousands of dollars in inventory getting ready for this weekend. I possibly could have genuinely used that (cash) for my rent, which arrives in a few days,” said Martinez, 44.

“We were just getting to where we could pay the bills,” stated Tish Keller, owner of the Triple J Chophouse and Brew Co. in downtown Lubbock. “Spending us back off to 50% capacity means we won’t have sufficient business to pay personnel, aside from the bills.”

Keller said she didn’t understand how much time she could stay start and dreaded trying to save her business from ruin twice in one year.

CASES SURGE IN FLORIDA

Florida issued its new rules after recording a good startling 8,942 new cases of COVID-19, eclipsing the state’s one-day record of 5,511 reached on June 24.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday that Imperial County, southeast of LA, has become so overwhelmed by the virus that he was recommending it issue a strict new stay-at-home order.

Imperial County health officials down the road tweeted that its stay-at-home order imposed on March remained set up. The county board of supervisors planned a gathering for Friday night to consider further actions.

Newsom has paused allowing counties to further reopen their economies found in response to rising COVID-19 hospitalizations.

In Alaska, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz issued a crisis order requiring residents to wear masks in public areas, indoor spaces after the state recognized 836 cases by Friday, 387 of these in his city.

Texas had been at the forefront of states peeling apart restrictions designed to control the pandemic, allowing bars to reopen in-may.

It has since witnessed a number of the biggest spikes in new cases, reporting 5,996 in Thursday. The state in addition has seen record amounts of hospitalizations in the last two weeks.

Nearly 125,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, the best referred to death toll from the highly infectious disease on the globe.

Despite the grim news from Texas, Florida and elsewhere, President Donald Trump explained on Friday the United States was returning from the crisis, which includes halted large parts of the economy and kept millions jobless.

“We have just a little work to accomplish, and we’ll get it done. We’re having some extremely good numbers developing with regards to the comeback, the comeback of our country, and I think it’s going incredibly rapidly and it’s likely to be very good,” he said at a meeting in the White Residence.Vice President Mike Pence said that in Texas and Florida “we’re viewing increasingly more young people, under the age of 35, who are testing great. Oftentimes they haven't any symptoms.”

Also reporting record rises in cases this week were Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, SC, Tennessee and Wyoming.