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This daily live blog will provide the latest updates, news and details of COVID-19 from media outlets and social media sources nationally and internationally.
8:20 p.m.
People are engaging in extremely dangerous behaviors — including gargling with bleach — in an effort to prevent COVID-19, CDC report finds. https://t.co/FaL1eWZYIG
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 6, 2020
RELATED: CDC reports finds some gargling with disinfectant to prevent COVID-19, a dangerous behavior
5:20 p.m.
The NBPA player leadership was informed of a plan to keep 1,600 people in Orlando bubble at any given time, sources tell ESPN. Player families will be allowed to arrive after first-round of playoffs — likely three members at a time.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 5, 2020
3:15 p.m.
Zimbabwe's #COVID19 cases rise to 265. The latest 28 confirmed cases are returnees from South Africa. @rntc @CountEvans @JamesKuwanda @MoHCCZim pic.twitter.com/KFU9qJzJur
— Costa Nkomo (@costahcostah) June 5, 2020
11:53 a.m.
Gov Cuomo. "We have the lowest number of COVID deaths since we started (42)." Eight weeks ago 800 died in a day. "The people of the state radically changed how they behaved." Record low of hospitalizations.
— News 8 WROC (@News_8) June 5, 2020
11:12 a.m.
Latest reported Florida COVID-19 numbers:
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) June 5, 2020
-61488 total cases (up from 60183 yesterday)
-10794 hospital admissions (up from 10652)
-2660 deaths (up from 2607)
-19056 in Dade (up from 18779)
-7572 in Broward (up from 7462)
-6859 in Palm Beach (up from 6688)
10:40 a.m.
Many of us have been deeply worried about a jump in #Covid19 cases in NYC with the demonstrations ( yesterday was only the 7th day of demos)@NYCMayor just announced#NYC hospital admissions nearly doubled overnight:
— Amr Khalifa (@Cairo67Unedited) June 5, 2020
- 48 yesterday
- 84 today
" I dont like that", he says
10:33 a.m.
#UPDATE: Here are the latest #COVID19 numbers for Davidson County, showing changes over the last 24 hours, according to @NashvilleHealth:
— Josh Breslow (@JoshBreslowWKRN) June 5, 2020
- Confirmed cases: 5,900 (+69)
- Active cases: 1,362 (+45)
- Deaths: 70 (+4)
- Recoveries: 4,468 (+20)
- Tests processed: 63,199 (+670)
7:45 a.m.
The White House coronavirus task force is meeting less frequently, the government’s top infectious disease expert is getting little face time with President Trump, and the administration’s virus-testing coordinator is returning to his previous job. https://t.co/yv5FYwGTKl
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 5, 2020
6:12 p.m.
This week, CDC received 20 models to forecast possible #COVID19 deaths in the US. As of June 1, the combined forecast suggests the increase in total number of deaths will continue to slow with between 118,000 and 143,000 deaths by June 27. See: https://t.co/Ft6cgmaMPX pic.twitter.com/xFBs5IcJn3
— CDC (@CDCgov) June 4, 2020