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NYC Sets Up “Check Points” For Travelers; NJ Complains COVID-19 Positivity Rate Is “Too High”: Live Updates

Courtesy of ZeroHedge View original post here.

Summary:

  • NJ Gov says positivity rate is “too high”
  • Florida cases top 500k
  • NYC institutes “check points” for travelers
  • Chicago public schools to reopen online only this fall
  • UK invests $18mil in Scottish vax factory
  • JNJ strikes huge vax deal with White House
  • COVID deaths top 700k
  • US to send DHHS Secretary Alex Azar on historic visit to Taiwan
  • Czech Republic reports biggest jump in new cases since June
  • Poland suffers record deaths
  • WHO sends team of 43 to South Africa
  • Uganda is Africa’s standout COVID success story
  • WHO says first “confirmed” North Korea COVID cases “inconclusive”
  • Queensland, Australia bars travelers from all Eastern states

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Update (1255ET): New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has been beating the “impending disaster” drum for a little over a week now as the positivity rate and New Jersey’s “R” – a variable measuring the rate of spread/contraction – have crept higher. And during Wednesday’s press briefing, he complained that the state’s positivity rate is “too high”.

New Jersey reported 378 new cases and 8 additional deaths on Wednesday, Murphy said.

The state’s positivity rate is 2.57%, which is “too high because it’s over 2%,” Murphy said.

New Jersey has a statewide total of 183,327 cases of COVID-19 and 13,989 deaths from the virus.

“Let’s keep up what we are doing to keep the virus down,” Murphy said.

He shared the latest data in a series of tweets as well:

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