(Bloomberg) — Texas hospitalizations topped 10,000 for the first time and California suffered its second-highest day of deaths. Florida’s biggest county had a record number of patients in its intensive-care units.New York will allow limited visitors into nursing homes and long-term facilities for the first time in months. Overall U.S. cases rose 1.9%, matching the average daily rise over the past week.Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir treatment reduced the mortality risk for Covid-19 patients by 62% compared to standard care, a new analysis of trial data showed. Japan is trying to fix its contact-tracing app after it failed to register new cases.Key Developments:Global Tracker: Cases top 12.4 million; deaths surpass 558,000Wuhan shows the world how economies may recoverTesting bottlenecks are keeping states from tamping down virusBillionaire’s empire unexpectedly thrives in BrazilBringing students back poses ultimate test for collegesTrump school-reopening gambit stokes fresh concernSubscribe to a daily update on the virus from Bloomberg’s Prognosis team here. Click VRUS on the terminal for news and data on the coronavirus.Japan’s Contact-Tracing App Fails (8:49 a.m. HK)Japan’s health ministry suspended the registration of positive cases on its contact-tracing smartphone app Cocoa as it worked to fix an error that left some people unable to enter their information.The ministry aims to get the feature running again next week, according to a statement. The ministry encouraged users to keep using the app, which had 6.5 million downloads across iOS and Android phones as of Friday evening. Mexico Cases Rise 6,891 to 289,174 (8:23 a.m. HK)Mexico reported 6,891 new confirmed cases, bringing the country’s total to 289,174, the Health Ministry said late Friday. Deaths rose by 665 to 34,191.San Francisco to Pause Reopening Salons, Parlors (7 a.m. HK)San Francisco will delay reopening businesses that provide personal services, including haircuts, massages, tattoos and manicures, from an originally planned restart on Monday. The city made a similar move earlier this week to halt re-openings of indoor dining and outdoor bars.“Re-opening businesses that will encourage gathering and interacting with people outside of your own household is not the safe thing to do right now,” Mayor London Breed said Friday in a statement. The city’s new cases have jumped to 7.4 per 100,000 people, well above the goal of 1.8 and the rate of 3.5 when re-openings began on May 18.Texas Hits Milestone (5:35 p.m. NY)More than 10,000 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 in Texas Friday, the first time the state has reached that benchmark. Cases there jumped by 9,765, an increase of 4.2% compared with the seven-day average of 3.9%. The state has added close to 10,000 cases for each of the last four days, and deaths have begun to spike in tandem, with another 98 fatalities exceeding the seven-day average.Governor Greg Abbott stepped up efforts to encourage people to wear masks, making the rounds of local television stations to warn that deaths are likely to rise in coming days. Though Abbott has issued a mask mandate for the state, he allowed counties to opt out if they had fewer than 20 active cases, and almost a third of Texas’ 254 counties have done so.California to Release Prisoners (4:30 p.m. NY)California plans to release about 7% of its prison population, roughly 8,000 non-violent offenders, to relieve pressure on a chronically overcrowded correctional system that’s now struggling with a spike in coronavirus cases.The move will enable prisons to maximize available space to implement physical distancing, isolation and quarantine efforts, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. It estimated that about 8,000 currently incarcerated people could be eligible for release by the end of August.U.S. Cases Rise 1.9% (3:55 p.m. NY)U.S. cases rose by 59,782 from a day earlier to 3.14 million, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News. The 1.9% jump matched the average daily increase over the past week. Deaths rose 0.7% to 133,677.Arizona reported 4,221 new cases, a 3.7% gain to 116,892 that matched the average rise of the previous seven days. The state also reported 44 new deaths, bringing the total to 2,082.Florida reported 244,151 cases, up 4.9% from a day earlier, compared with an average increase of 4.7% in the previous seven days. Deaths reached 4,102, a gain of 93, or 2.3%.California Has Second-Deadliest Day (2:21 p.m. NY)California reported 140 new virus deaths, second only to the 149 reported Thursday as the most yet for the pandemic. The 14-day average is 75, according to state health data.Total confirmed cases rose by 7,798, or 2.6%, pushing California’s total infections to 304,297. While the gain was less than the 3% average over the past seven days, the state’s outbreak has been accelerating: Infections have exceeded 300,000 just two weeks after crossing the 200,000 milestone.N.Y. Nursing Home Residents Get Visits (2:17 p.m. NY)With the number of cases in New York remaining relatively low, residents the state’s nursing homes and long-term facilities will be allowed to have visitors, health officials said. They must be virus-free for at least 28 days, and no more than two visitors will be allowed at a time.Visitors must have their temperature checked, wear face coverings, and socially distance during the visit, according to the guidance. Only 10% of the residents in each facility can be allowed visitors at any one time.Cases in the state, once the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, remain low with 786 new infections and 8 deaths reported Friday. Of the 73,558 tests conducted in the state 786, or 1.06%, were positive.N.J. Transmission Drops below 1 (1:27 p.m. NY)New Jersey’s virus transmission rate dropped to 0.98, Governor Phil Murphy said Friday, “a good sign” that the state is making progress to reverse an uptick in Covid-19 transmission.Two days ago, the rate had reached 1.1, the highest in 10 weeks. The virus rate of transmission — a measure of how many people a carrier infects — was more than 5 at the pandemic’s March height in New Jersey. Any figure over 1 suggests the virus is spreading.Russia Triples Death Toll in Revised Data (12:33 p.m. NY)Russia reported 15,277 deaths linked to the virus in April and May, including 9,192 where Covid-19 was reported as the main cause. That compares with the 4,831 deaths reported previously by the government for those months.The earlier data didn’t include cases where the virus was present but not considered the main cause, but some regions, including the capital Moscow, began reporting those figures, as well. Using the new data, the death rate from the virus stood at 3.7%, three times the previously reported figure.The Statistics Service didn’t release June data. The government has faced questions about the much lower number of deaths attributed to the pandemic compared with other nations.Gilead’s Remdesivir Linked to Death Reduction (9:36 a.m. NY)Gilead Sciences Inc. said its remdesivir virus treatment is associated with a 62% reduction in the risk of death compared with the standard of care. The death rate with remdesivir was 7.6% at Day 14 versus 12.5% among those not taking remdesivir.The finding is based on an analysis that combines results from a Phase 3 trial and a “real-world” retrospective cohort of patients with severe disease, the company said, noting that it requires confirmation in prospective clinical trials.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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