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U.S. NEWS Monday 13 July 2020
As U.S. grapples with virus, Florida hits record case increase

Continued from Front bts about the accuracy of
the figures. Officially, the
Giroir, the assistant secre- country has over 18,000
tary at the Health and Hu- confirmed infections and
man Services Department, 382 deaths since March.
told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday’s report of 11 co-
Sunday that “if we don’t ronavirus deaths was the
have that, we will not get country’s second-highest
control of the virus.’’ daily death toll.
President Donald Trump Serbian police clashed with
wore a mask in public for anti-government protesters
the first time Saturday, for four nights last week,
something Democratic demonstrations that forced
House Speaker Nancy Pe- the Serbian president to
losi said Sunday showed he withdraw plans to reintro-
has “crossed a bridge.” duce a coronavirus lock-
Pelosi told CNN’s “State of down. Many of the increa-
the Union” that she hopes sing infections have been
it means the president “will blamed on crowded soc-
change his attitude, which cer matches, tennis events
will be helpful in stopping and nightclubs.
the spread of the corona- In Bulgaria, authorities rein-
virus.” troduced restrictions lifted
In Florida, where parts President Donald Trump wears a face mask as he walks down a hallway during a visit to Walter a few weeks ago because
of Walt Disney World Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Saturday, July 11, 2020. of a new surge in cases.
reopened Saturday, 15,299 Associated Press Albania also has seen a sig-
people tested positive, for think the count probably far underestimate actual brought in from abroad.” nificant increase in infecti-
a total of 269,811 cases, will not go up as dramati- totals. Countries in Eastern Hungarian authorities said ons since mid-May, when it
and 45 deaths were recor- cally as it did in the spring Europe were among those Sunday they have sorted eased lockdown measures.
ded, according to state because of several factors, facing rising waves of new countries into three cate- The Balkan nation reported
Department of Health sta- including increased testing. infections, leading to riots gories — red, yellow and 93 new cases, over twice
tistics reported Sunday. The World Health Organiza- in Serbia, mandatory face green — based on their as many as the highest
California had the previous tion, meanwhile, reported masks in Croatia and travel rates of new coronavirus daily figures in March and
record of daily positive ca- another record increase in bans or quarantines impo- infections, and will impose April, and the health mini-
ses — 11,694, set on Wed- the number of confirmed sed by Hungary. restrictions, including entry stry called the situation at
nesday. coronavirus cases over a “We see worrisome signs bans and mandatory qua- the main infectious disease
The numbers come at the 24-hour period, at over about an increase in the rantines, depending on hospital “grave.”
end of a record-breaking 230,000. number of cases in the which country people are “Don’t lower vigilance and
week as Florida reported The U.N. health agency neighboring countries, Eu- arriving from. respect hygiene rules,”
514 fatalities — an average said the United States again rope and the whole world,” Serbia, where health au- Albanian health authori-
of 73 per day. Three weeks topped the list among said Gergely Gulyas, Hun- thorities are warning that ties urged. Croatia, whose
ago, the state was aver- countries, with more than garian Prime Minister Vik- hospitals are almost full island-dotted Adriatic Sea
aging 30 deaths per day. 66,000 cases. The figures tor Orban’s chief of staff. due to the latest surge, re- coast is a major tourist des-
Researchers expect deaths don’t necessarily account “Now, we have to protect ported 287 new infections tination, is making wearing
to rise in the U.S. for at least for delays in reporting ca- our own security and pre- on Sunday, although there masks mandatory in stores
some weeks, but some ses, and are believed to vent the virus from being have been increasing dou- beginning Monday. q

Court rules 1st federal execution in 17 years can proceed

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Nancy, and her 8-year-old The federal Bureau of Pris- response to lawsuits that
Associated Press daughter, Sarah Powell. ons said Sunday that a have sought to halt ex-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chief District Judge Jane staff member involved in ecutions scheduled to re-
federal appeals court has Magnus-Stinson ruled Fri- preparing for the first fed- sume Monday.
ruled that the first federal day in Indiana that the ex- eral executions in nearly The staff member did not
execution in nearly two ecution would be put on two decades has tested wear a mask at all times
decades can proceed as hold because of concerns positive for coronavirus. during meetings with other
scheduled on Monday. from the family of the vic- The Justice Department Bureau of Prisons employ-
The ruling from the 7th U.S. tims about the coronavi- said the development will ees and other law en-
Circuit Court of Appeals rus pandemic, which has not mean an additional forcement officials in the
overturns a lower court or- killed more than 130,000 delay in the government's days before learning of
der that had put the exe- people and is ravaging timetable, already stalled the exposure, the agency
cution of 47-year-old Dan- prisons nationwide. by a federal court, be- said. The bureau says the
iel Lewis Lee on hold. The Justice Department cause the worker had staff member did not en-
Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, argued that the judge's or- not been in the execution ter the execution facility
had been scheduled to der misconstrued the law chamber and had not or the prison's command
die by lethal injection on and asked the appeals come into contact with center and left the facility In this Oct. 31 1997 file
photo Danny Lee waits for
Monday at a federal pris- court to immediately over- anyone on the specialized before the dozens of Bu- his arraignment hearing
on in Indiana. He was con- turn the ruling. team sent to the prison to reau of Prisons employees for murder in the Pope
victed in Arkansas of the THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS handle the execution. who are part of the team County Detention Center in
1996 killings of gun dealer UPDATE. AP's earlier story is The agency made the dis- handling the executions Russellville, Ark.
William Mueller, his wife, below closure in court filings in arrived at Terre Haute. q Associated Press