The World Health Organization has reported the largest number of coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period on Friday with 350,766 worldwide, surpassing by 12,000 a record from earlier last week.
In the United States, six states set new records. NBC News writes:
Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia all had record single-day increases in cases on Friday, according to NBC News’ tally.
“We’re sick of wearing masks, we’re sick of all of this, and I get it, but we’ve got to hang in there for our kids. We’ve got to hang in there for ourselves,” Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, said.
“The best way to summarize it, I think, is that people are simply not being cautious,” the governor said. “They’re going about their family life and meeting with people.”
Meanwhile at the White House, Donald Trump held a campaign rally where he claimed, falsely, that the coronavirus will soon go away. The New York Times writes:
“It’s going to disappear,” he said on Saturday, after underscoring recent “flare-ups” in other countries. He added that “the therapeutics are going to help a lot” and claimed, without evidence, that a vaccine was coming out “very, very quickly.”
The Washington Post writes:
In reality, the coronavirus appears to be resurgent in much of the country, with an average of almost 50,000 cases each day over the past week. More than 900 Americans died of the virus on Friday.
Trump’s continued denial about the coronavirus — even after contracting it himself and suffering serious symptoms — has raised concerns among many Republicans that he is making a grave political miscalculation just over three weeks before Election Day.