Texas, Arizona and Florida all reported their greatest day-to-day increases in new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, even after all 3 states executed and later on lifted stay-at-home orders meant to stop the spread of infections.
State authorities in Florida reported 2,783 new cases, in Texas, 2,622, and in Arizona, 2,392 All 3 states have actually seen social distancing guidelines relaxed for weeks, and most companies have actually been enabled to resume in some capability.
The figures come amidst ongoing efforts by President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders to downplay the continuous spread of the virus. At least 21 states have seen rates of new cases increase over the last 2 weeks as a bulk of the nation reopens.
At the exact same time, Trump has actually been pressing deceptive claims that infections are just increasing because there’s more testing, presuming as to declare Monday, without evidence, that “if we stop testing right now, we ‘d have really couple of cases, if any.”
The president is also preparing to hold an enormous rally in Oklahoma this weekend with 20,000 attendees at an indoor arena, in spite of pleas from local officials and health experts that the event might rapidly result in a restored outbreak in the state. Infection rates in Oklahoma rose 68% in the second week of June.
” I’m very worried,” Bruce Dart, the executive director of the Tulsa health department, told the Tulsa