20 cases of COVID-19 confirmed cases

Number confirmed Coronavirus Over 20 million worldwide, one-fourth of which in the United States, Latest tally Revealed on Tuesday.

About a quarter of the nearly 740,000 deaths caused by COVID-19 occur in the United States, NBC News figures Indicated.

In just six weeks, blocked countries began opening in April, doubling the number of cases worldwide.

The same thing happened in America. Most of the new incidents have been reported in the South and Sunbelt. States like FloridaIt has resumed in May at the request of President Donald Trump, and has since seen a surge in new incidents, including 276 deaths reported on Tuesday.

California, the state with the highest number of cases so far, now has 574,228 cases after an increase of 12,750 nights. In addition, 117 deaths were reported, totaling 10,473.

Even if the world is a pandemic and marks this gloomy milestone, Trump pressed for College football resumed Claimed that the virus poses little danger to athletes.

“This attacks the elderly terribly and viciously,” Trump said on Tuesday at FOX Sports Radio. “But these footballers are physically very young and strong. They won’t have a problem. Can that happen? Doubt. You never see people die I think youth have an olfactory disorder.”

The Central American Conference, however, Error on the side of attention The fall season has already been canceled due to concerns about the coronavirus.

Most COVID-19 deaths in the United States were elderly and vulnerable. And the American Health Care Association and National Life Support Center Report released On Tuesday, COVID-19 cases confirmed in a nursing home in the United States show rapid increase again After a steady decline in June..

However, health experts have also warned for weeks that the age of people who catch the virus is declining.

In fact, most of the responsibility for the spike in the US is Quarantine youth People gathered in House party And refuse to wear masks with bars and practice social distances.

Also, Recent research According to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, between July 16 and July 30, there was a 40% increase in COVID-19 cases in children.

In the last two weeks of July, researchers found that nearly 100,000 children in the United States were sick with the coronavirus.

In other developments:

• A woman in the Houston area trying to get home from Midland, Texas, took her and her family off Southwest Airlines flights Monday morning as her 3-year-old son with autism refused to wear a face mask. I said I did. “He was yelling. He had a seizure. He was yelling no, no, no,” said mother Alyssa Sadler. Local NBC News Affiliate.. She said the son had a sensory dysfunction, disliked his face being touched, and created a doctor’s note as well. However, the flight attendant claimed and the plane was returned to the gate. Southwest Airlines said that all passengers over the age of 2 must cover their face during the trip, which is repeated during the online booking and check-in process. “If the customer can’t cover their face for some reason, the Southwest regrets that they can’t transport individuals,” the airline said in an email to an affiliate.
• Public health experts say wearing a mask can help slow the spread of the virus, but the application of mask rules can be dangerous to your health. 17 year old worker in Sesame Place Theme Park In a difficult way, when on Sunday nearing Philadelphia he reminded unidentified men and women that they needed to wear masks while in the park, Philadelphia NBC series. A few hours later, the man confronted the worker on a Cookie Captain’s High C adventure ride and hit him in the face, police said. Later, a man and a woman fled from the scene as the guards of the park chased him. Teen had surgery on Monday to repair an injured jaw and a damaged tooth. Police still seemed to be between 20 and 30 years old and were trying to identify his attacker who was driving a car on the New York plate.
• Just a week after school reopened in a school district in northern Georgia, 800 students and staff were told to quarantine.. Last week, the Cherokee County School District, 44 miles north of Atlanta, instructed 20 people to quarantine one of their 2nd graders as virus-positive after the first day of school. The number has increased rapidly and as of Monday night, the school has ordered quarantine for possible exposure to 826 students. According to the list created by the district..
• Three people Linked to a school in Florida All were killed by the coronavirus, officials said. Jacqueline Byrd, 55, worked at Fort Braden School outside Tallahassee. Her 19-year-old son, Jordan, was a school janitor. One week after Jordan Bird died, his girlfriend’s mother died. Karen BradwellAt the age of 53, she was the director of an after-school program at the Fort Braden School.
• In Russia, Putin Vladimir announced Tuesday that the country has registered World’s first coronavirus vaccine.. Putin said the vaccine, called Sputnik V, “has proven to be effective and has passed all the necessary tests,” but researchers have not published data for peer review. , The long-term effects of treatment remained unclear.

Corky Seamasco

Corky Siemaszko is a senior writer at NBC News Digital.

Joe Murphy Contributed.