Our Response to COVID-19: Information
Globally
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June 17, 2020 -- Near peaks in Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa, Columbia, Egypt, Indonesia, Argentina, and new peaks in India, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, and Iraq added up to the fourth highest single day report of 142,024 new global cases of the disease and 5,280 new deaths world wide (one COVID-19 death every 16 second).

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  • COVID-19 Global cases: 8,398,683 (+142,024)
  • COVID-19 Global deaths: 451,237 (+5,280)
  • COVID-19 Global death rate: 5.37%
  • COVID-19 Global tests (est.): 119,265,957 (+2,923,038) 
  • COVID-19 Global positivity rate: 7.04%

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India data:

  • 367,264 cases (+13,103) PEAK
  • 12,262 deaths (+341)
  • death rate: 3.34%
  • 6,084,256 tests
  • positivity rate: 6.04%
Saudi Arabia data:

  • 141,234 cases (+4,919) PEAK
  • 1,091 deaths (+39)
  • death rate: 0.77%
  • 1,167,766 tests
  • positivity rate: 12.09%
Bangladesh data:

  • 98,489 cases (+4,008) PEAK
  • 1,305 deaths (+43)
  • death rate: 1.33%
  • 551,244 tests
  • positivity rate: 17.87%
Iraq data:

  • 24,254 cases (+1,554) PEAK
  • 772 deaths (+61)
  • death rate: 3.194%
  • 380,005 tests*
  • positivity rate: 6.38%
Honduran President Tests Positive
Juan Orlando Hernández, the president of Honduras, announced late Tuesday that he, the first lady and two aides had tested positive for Covid-19.

In a televised statement, Mr. Hernández said he began feeling unwell over the weekend, and the diagnosis was confirmed on Tuesday. He said he is well enough to continue working remotely and will be examined to determine the next steps.... READ MORE
Global Forecast
In the US
Four out of the last seven days have produced national reports with over 25,000 new coronavirus cases, and today was such a day with 25,614 new cases at the time of writing this report. Reports from California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, and Texas either reached new heights or near records.

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  • COVID-19 USA cases: 2,233,854 (+25,614)
  • COVID-19 USA deaths: 119,940 (+811)
  • COVID-19 USA death rate: 5.37%
  • COVID-19 USA testing: 26,211,238 individual tests
  • COVID-19 USA positivity rate: 8.52%
10 states are seeing their highest average of daily new Covid-19 cases since the pandemic started
(CNN)Just as much of the US was improving, 10 states are seeing their highest seven-day average of new coronavirus cases per day since the pandemic started months ago, according to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.

The data includes new cases reported by Johns Hopkins through Tuesday. The states seeing record-high averages are Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas. READ MORE.
Florida data:

  • 82,719 cases (+2,610) near peak
  • 3,021 deaths (+25)
  • death rate: 3.65%
  • 1,485,795 tests
  • positivity rate: 5.57%
Texas data:

  • 99,304 cases (+3,512) near peak
  • 2,105 deaths (+43)
  • death rate: 2.12%
  • 1,560,537 tests
  • positivity rate: 6.36%
Arizona data:

  • 40,924 cases (+1,827) near peak
  • 1,239 deaths (+20)
  • death rate: 3.03%
  • 501,963tests
  • positivity rate: 8.15%
Oklahoma data:

  • 8,904 cases (+259) PEAK
  • 364 deaths (+1)
  • death rate: 4.09%
  • 267,424 tests
  • positivity rate: 3.33%
In California
California will become the second highest infected state in the Union this Saturday.
California's coronavirus spread is accelerating and COVID-19 daily infections have reached a new peak, passing the 4,000 mark for the first time, ending the day at 4,233, today's worst results of all 50 states. Los Angeles alone had almost half of the state's new cases (2,105), but it took hikes and new daily records across the 58 counties of California to add up to the undesired daily record, further demonstrating that the initial shelter in place order was a successful strategy that allowed the state to prepare for the statewide onslaught we are now experiencing. Today, COVID-19 killed 82 of our California friends, relatives, and neighbors. As its own country, California would rank 13th with more confirmed cases than Mexico (159,793 cases) -- which just overtook the spot from France with its latest report published in the last hour -- below Turkey (182,727 cases).

  • COVID-19 California cases: 163,213 (+4,233) PEAK
  • COVID-19 California deaths: 5,286 (+82)
  • COVID-19 California death rate: 3.24%
  • COVID-19 California testing: 2,997,988 individual tests
  • COVID-19 California positivity rate: 5.44%
In the Central Valley
The Madera County Department of Public Health announced that 25 more of our county's residents are infected with COVID-19 -- two of whom were hospitalized: a man in his 80s and a woman in her 60s -- bringing our cumulative cases to 275. 9 coronavirus patients are now hospitalized in Madera. A sharp rise of 112 new cases (41% of total) in the last 10 days. All 7 local counties have reported new cases today, and a very heavy report of 17 new deaths in the last 24 hours. Today's combined coronavirus cases from the 7 local counties added 378 new infections. The 7 counties together have reported 11,974 infections and 246 COVID-19 deaths since our first cases appeared in the California central valley during the first week of March 2020. A different perspective: if the seven local counties were combined into one small country (population: 3,065,609), we would overtake South Korea's 58th national COVID-19 rank in the next few hours (population: 51,709,098). I cannot compare testing data because Tulare does not publish that information and Merced only sends it out sporadically. I have unsuccessfully requested the information from both counties.
Madera + 6 local counties

  • COVID-19 Mariposa: 18 cases (+1 yesterday), 1 death
  • COVID-19 Merced: 518 cases (+48), 8 deaths (+1)
  • COVID-19 Madera: 275 cases (+25), 4 deaths
  • COVID-19 Fresno: 2,900 cases (+112), 61 deaths (+4)
  • COVID-19 Tulare: 2,881 cases (+83), 106 deaths(+8)
  • COVID-19 Kings: 1,870 cases (+39), 9 deaths (+1)
  • COVID-19 Kern: 3,512 cases (+60), 57 deaths (+3)

7 counties together

  • COVID-19 7 counties cases: 11,974 cases (+368)
  • COVID-19 7 counties deaths: 246 deaths (+17)
  • COVID-19 7 counties death rate: 2.05%
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