By Aaron Miller-
America is experiencing a scare of a second wave of Covid-19 after 18 states including Arizona and Texas on Tuesday reported high numbers of new infections in their daily numbers as most of the U.S tries to adjust to the easing of the lockdown.
Researchers are now reviewing their projections of Covid-19 deaths this summer after increased numbers of new cases were reported in nearly 20 states.
Florida has revealed the highest number the state has yet seen of new and confirmed cases in a single day, after three record-breaking days late last week..Reports claim that 18 states are seeing upward trends in newly reported cases from one week to the next: California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alaska and Hawaii.
Cumulative hospitalisations in Florida rose by 191 to 12,206. Florida reported 80, 109 Covid-19 cases . Governor Ron Desantis rejected calls to re establish a lockdown, arguing that the higher new numbers reflected wider testing and isolated breaks among migrant farmers in Florida’s agricultural communities. Desdantis said hospital capacity was adequate to cater for any undesirable influx of cases. ”We are not shutting down, we are going forward he said. We are going to protect the vulnerable”.
One model cited by the White House now predicts 200,000 US deaths from coronavirus by October 1 an increase of 30,000 deaths since last week’s projection by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
The news follows other worrying updates that Beijing, the Chinese capital, returned into the total lockdown it had just been easing after 106 new cases were reported around the Xinfadi wholesale food market in Beijing’s southwestern Fengtai District. The city has deployed 100,000 epidemic control workers, put at least 28 local communities under strict lockdown, and kept closed schools, sports and entertainment facilities that were scheduled to reopen