HuffPost reporters around the globe are tracking the pandemic and its results.
Read the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic listed below.
Trump’s National Security Advisor Tests Favorable– 7/27/20, 9: 20 a.m. ET
Robert O’Brien, national security advisor to President Trump, has evaluated positive for COVID-19, the White House confirmed Monday. He is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration understood to have actually contracted the coronavirus.
” He has moderate symptoms and has actually been self-isolating and working from a safe area off website,” the White Home stated in a declaration “There is no danger of exposure to the President or the Vice President. The work of the National Security Council continues.”
O’Brien came down with the virus after going to a household occasion, Bloomberg reported, mentioning an individual familiar with the matter. Previously this month, he returned from a three-day trip to Paris, where he met with his equivalents from the U.K., France, Germany and Italy, according to Politico
A number of people near to Trump, including his reelection campaign’s top fundraising official and Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary, have evaluated positive for the virus in recent months.
— Hayley Miller
Birx Prompts Several States To Close Bars, Limit Celebration— 7/27/20, 9 a.m. ET
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator for the Trump administration, prompted states with rising infections to impose brand-new restrictions that include closing bars, decreasing indoor restaurant capacity and restricting celebrations to 10 individuals.
” We can see what is taking place in the South is moving north,” Birx informed reporters in Kentucky on Sunday, suggesting that new hot spots outside of Florida, Texas and other Southern states are beginning to emerge.
Birx stated she is specifically concentrated on managing the pandemic “before it gets worse” in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Virginia, and she suggested that “100%” of individuals in these states wear masks when they remain in public or around others.
Kentucky allowed bars to reopen on June 29, however Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said Sunday that he planned to reveal brand-new constraints early this week in the middle of a surge in brand-new cases. As of Monday, the state has tape-recorded more than 27,000 cases and a minimum of 718 deaths. Florida and California have gone beyond New York, when the center of the infection in the U.S., in known infections.
— Hayley Miller
World’s Biggest Vaccine Study Starts In U.S.– 7/27/20, 8: 05 a.m. ET
The most significant COVID-19 vaccine study to date is now underway in the United States.
Start Monday, the first 30,000 volunteers will help evaluate shots developed by the National Institutes of Health and biotechnology company Moderna, the Associated Press reported. Researchers will inject volunteers with either the speculative vaccine or a placebo and track which individuals contract the infection as they tackle their lives. The researchers will likewise track any possible unfavorable adverse effects of the vaccine.
A number of other vaccines made by China and Britain’s Oxford University remain in the lasts of testing.
Read more from AP here
— Hayley Miller
Florida Records More Coronavirus Infections Than New York City– 7/27/20, 3 a.m. ET
According to figures released on Sunday, Florida has now recorded more coronavirus cases than New york city, which was when the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak.
Johns Hopkins University reported that Florida had actually reached an overall of more than 423,00 cases, almost 77,000 of which were reported in the last seven days. That figure goes beyond New York’s 416,000, which has actually seen just under 5,000 cases in the last week.
California presently has the most cases of any state in the country.
Despite the main figures, it’s ha