Coronavirus updates: New cases, deaths see double-digit increases in past week

The numbers of cases nationally grew 22.7% week over week.

ByMorgan Winsor and Emily Shapiro
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Last Updated: October 28, 2020, 4:12 PM EDT

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1.1 million people worldwide.

Over 43.8 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the virus has rapidly spread to every continent except Antarctica.

The United States is the worst-affected country, with more than 8.7 million diagnosed cases and at least 226,606 deaths.

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Here's how the news developed today. All times Eastern.
Oct 27, 2020, 4:09 PM EDT

Cases skyrocketing in Wisconsin

Wisconsin has now surpassed 200,000 COVID-19 cases. While it took Wisconsin a little over seven months to reach 100,000 cases, it took a fraction of that time -- just 36 days -- to reach 200,000, Gov. Tony Evers said.

With 5,262 new cases and 64 more deaths, Tuesday marked Wisconsin’s largest single-day increase for cases and fatalities, said Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm.

A volunteer delivers boxes of food to families as rural hunger rises due to the coronavirus disease, in Manitowoc, Wisc., October 23, 2020.
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Hospitals across the state are strained and operating with critical and imminent staffing shortages, Palm said.

Evers urged residents to avoid gatherings and only leave their homes when absolutely necessary.

ABC News’ Rachel Katz contributed to this report.

Oct 27, 2020, 4:08 PM EDT

New Yorkers urged to stay home for Thanksgiving

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging New Yorkers to avoid traveling over Thanksgiving to keep high COVID-19 numbers from returning to the city.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stands in line with other voters to cast his ballot during early voting in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Oct. 27, 2020.
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“You could be putting your family and yourself in danger and bringing the disease back here," the mayor said, according to ABC New York station WABC. "Everyone is going to make their own decision, I know there are painful choices. I get it. But my recommendation is to avoid travel this holiday season. Stay safe, to keep us all safe.”

Oct 27, 2020, 3:21 PM EDT

California added to New York’s travel advisory list

California has been added to New York’s growing travel advisory list, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

Forty-five states and territories now meet the travel advisory requirements, Cuomo said. Those who come to New York must quarantine for two weeks if they travel from areas with positive test rates above 10 per 100,000 residents over a one-week average, or an area with a 10% or higher positivity rate over a one-week average.

A Dia de los Muertos altar honoring UFCW Local 770 grocery, drug store, and food processing essential union workers who have died from the coronavirus disease sits on display in Los Angeles, Oct. 26, 2020.
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These are the states and territories on the list: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania meet the criteria for the travel advisory list, but Cuomo said it’s not practical to enforce a quarantine with neighboring states. New Yorkers are discouraged from nonessential travel to those states.

ABC News’ Josh Hoyos contributed to this report.

Oct 27, 2020, 3:04 PM EDT

Greece, Italy report record rise in cases

Greece reported 1,259 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, a record 24-hour increase, surpassing the 935 new infections reported on Saturday, according to the National Public Health Organization.

People wearing protective face masks walk past a mural by Greek visual artist Hambas, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Athens, Greece, Oct. 27, 2020.
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The small Mediterranean country now has over 32,000 cases.

Twelve new deaths were reported on Tuesday, pushing Greece's fatality total to 593.

Meanwhile, Italy on Tuesday also reported a record 24-hour increase -- 21,994 newly diagnosed cases -- breaking a record set on Sunday, according to the Civil Protection Agency.

A patient on a biocontainment stretcher is taken out of an ambulance to be transferred to the San Filippo Neri hospital in Rome, Oct. 27, 2020.
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Italy now has more than 564,000 cases and at least 37,700 fatalities.

Walter Ricciardi, a top Italian physician and adviser to Health Minister Roberto Speranza, called for Naples and Milan to be locked down on Tuesday, saying "in Milan and Naples you can get COVID by walking into a bar or a restaurant or catching a bus."

ABC News’ Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.

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