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Coronavirus news: 4 more states added to NY, NJ, CT quarantine list

Thirty-five states and territories are currently on the list.

ByMorgan Winsor and Emily Shapiro
Last Updated: September 8, 2020, 3:40 AM EDT

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 894,000 people worldwide.

Over 27.4 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. The criteria for diagnosis -- through clinical means or a lab test -- has varied from country-to-country. Still, the actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks.

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 6.3 million diagnosed cases and at least 189,538 deaths.

California has the most cases of any U.S. state, with more than 742,000 people diagnosed, according to Johns Hopkins data. California is followed by Texas and Florida, with over 659,000 cases and over 650,000 cases respectively.

Nearly 170 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 are being tracked by the World Health Organization, six of which are in crucial phase three trials.

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Sep 08, 2020, 3:40 AM EDT

US reports under 30,000 new cases for 1st time since June

There were 24,257 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the United States on Monday, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

It’s the first time since June 21 that the United States has reported under 30,000 new cases in a day. Monday’s tally is also far below the country’s record set on July 16, when there were 77,255 new cases in a 24-hour-reporting period.

An additional 267 coronavirus-related fatalities were also recorded Monday, the country’s lowest daily death toll since July 4 and down from a peak of 2,666 new fatalities reported on April 17.

A sign reminding people the fine for not wearing a face mask can be as much as $350 is seen by the pier during a heat wave in Manhattan Beach, California, on Sept. 7, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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A total of 6,301,321 people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and at least 189,215 of them have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases include people from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. territories as well as repatriated citizens.

By May 20, all U.S. states had begun lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The day-to-day increase in the country's cases then hovered around 20,000 for a couple of weeks before shooting back up and crossing 70,000 for the first time in mid-July.

Last week, an internal memo from the Federal Emergency Management Agency obtained by ABC News showed the number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States had ticked upward while new deaths had decreased in week-over-week comparisons.

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