By Julia Hollingsworth, Jenni Marsh, Tara John, Fernando Alfonso III and Amir Vera, CNN
From CNN’s Melissa Alonso
Florida health officials have reported 8,530 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, according to the Florida Department of Health (DOH).
On Saturday, the state saw its highest single day for cases since the start of the pandemic with 9,585.
Florida now has 141,075 Covid-19 cases and 3,518 virus-related deaths, according to DOH's daily report.
From CNN's Wes Bruer
Former US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden said on Fox News that although the US is doing more testing and hospitals are better prepared, “this virus still has the upper hand.”
The increase in cases in Southern states is the result of reopening too fast and it “is going to continue to get worse for weeks,” Frieden said.
Frieden said the deaths will lag cases of infections by about a month. And while the increase in cases appears to be in younger populations, Frieden said “what starts in young adults doesn’t stay in young adults.”
Frieden estimated that in the next month, the US will see at least 15,000 more deaths from Covid-19. He also said cases will continue to rise.
“As a doctor, a scientist, an epidemiologist, I can tell you with 100% certainty that in most states where you're seeing an increase, it is a real increase. It is not more tests, it is more spread of the virus," Frieden said. "And the one number to look at that's very important is the percent of tests that’s positive. The number of cases, that can vary some because we are only diagnosing 10, 20% of all cases. So the numbers you're seeing are just a reflection, a tip of the iceberg of even more spread.”
From CNN’s Florencia Trucco and Karol Suarez
Mexico recorded 4,410 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing the total case count for the country to 212,802.
There were also 602 additional deaths on Saturday, bringing the country’s death toll to 26,381.
Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, Deputy Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell, who leads Mexico's Covid-19 response, said that despite encouraging data from some states that are gradually reopening their economic activities, there’s always a risk coronavirus cases might go up again.
“We are not exempt from the fact there can be an uptick in the outbreak anywhere in the country. It can happen, it happened in other countries,” López-Gatell said.
In a video posted to his Twitter page Saturday evening, Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, "It was a tough week because we do not just continue suffering from the pandemic, which is gradually going down, but also the earthquake, and yesterday's attack against Mexico City Police Chief Omar García Harfuch. We need to move forward so things can get better."
Mexico is the country with the fourth highest number of Covid-19 cases in Latin America, after Brazil, Peru and Chile.
From CNN's Jake Kwon and Sharif Paget
South Korea will allow a limited number of fans at professional sports games, the country's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Sunday.
The details, including the number of spectators and the timing of the matches, will be determined next week.
South Korea reported 40 new domestic cases of Covid-19 and 22 imported cases on Sunday. No new deaths have been reported.
There are now a total of 12,715 confirmed cases and 1069 patients are currently being treated, according to South Korea's health ministry.
From CNN's Rebecca Grandahl and Ali Main
Senior Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the committee on health, education, labor and pensions, told CNN it would "help" if President Trump wore a mask because it would eliminate political stigma around doing so.
"If wearing masks is important and all the health experts tell us that it is in containing the disease in 2020, it would help if from time to time the President would wear one to help us get rid of this political debate that says if you’re for Trump, you don’t wear a mask, if you’re against Trump, you do," the Tennessee Republican told CNN.
When asked whether the American people should look to the President for public health advice given his past remarks, including his comment about slowing down testing, the senator said the public should listen to medical experts.
"My suggestion to the President all along and for the other political leaders is let the experts do the talking about medicine. People trust them," Alexander said.
From CNN's Kevin Bohn
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she believes a federal mandate on mask wearing is “long overdue" and that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not require mask wearing because they did not want to “offend the President.”
Pelosi urged President Trump to wear a mask during an interview on ABC Sunday morning.
"[T]he President should be example, real men wear masks, be an example to the country, and wear the mask,” she said.
Pelosi's mask could be seen on her neck during the interview.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he would make wearing face masks mandatory for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
From CNN's Christina Maxouris
Only two US states are reporting a decline in new coronavirus cases compared to last week -- Connecticut and Rhode Island.
A staggering rise was reported in 36 states, including Florida, which some experts have cautioned could be the next epicenter.
Florida reported 9,585 new coronavirus cases Saturday, a single-day record high since the start of the pandemic. The number rivals that of New York's peak in daily cases in early April.
While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state's surge in cases in the past week was the result of a "test dump," officials there and across the US have also warned of an increase in cases among younger groups.
That's all as the US broke another record, reporting the highest number of new cases in a single day Friday with at least 40,173 new infections.
But the daunting numbers could be the tip of the iceberg: A new survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the total number of coronavirus infections across the US could actually be six to 24 times greater than reported.
As cases spike, US travelers are "unlikely" to be allowed into the European Union as the bloc begins opening up to international travel, several EU diplomats told CNN.
Officials in parts of the US are now trying to reel in the spread of the virus -- which many experts have said is spiraling out of control -- by making pleas to the country's young population to keep their distance, urging the use of face masks and halting their reopening plans.
The US has now hit more than 2.5 million infections and at least 125,539 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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From CNN's Nada Bashir in London
The British government will offer support to authorities in Leicester, a city in the East Midlands, amid suggestions that it could become the first place in the UK to enter a local lockdown following a concentrated coronavirus flare-up.
Pressed by the BBC’s Andrew Marr on whether a “local lockdown” would be introduced in Leicester, Home Secretary Priti Patel said “that is correct.”
“There will be support going into Leicester…the Health Secretary has been in touch with many of us over the weekend explaining some of the measures,” Patel said Sunday.
“With local flare-ups, it is right that we have a localized solution in terms of infection control, social distancing and testing,” she added.
Britain is in the process of easing its lockdown restrictions, which have been in place since March.
Groups of up to six people can now meet outside in England. But on Friday Downing Street warned that if coronavirus case numbers increased, the government would put local lockdowns in place.
According to Patel, the government has developed a new mechanism to deal with local flare-ups, telling Marr that there have been a number of instances reported across the country over recent weeks.
“We have a new mechanism, a Joint Biosecurity Center, which is very much geared up. It has been developed to address local flare-ups,” she said.
In a tweet on Saturday, Leicester City Council warned that there has been a rise in positive coronavirus tests in the area, urging members of the public to continue to adhere to social distancing guidelines.
“Until the number of cases in Leicester comes down, please be extra cautious and continue to keep 2 meters apart from people you don’t live with,” the local authority added.
From CNN's Hande Atay Alam in Atlanta
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 10 million on Sunday, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.
The terrible milestone comes six months after initial cases were first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in mid-December, before continuing to spread across the globe.
Covid-19 has infected 10,001,527 and killed at least 499,123 people globally.
The figure comes as numerous countries like the UK ease lockdown restrictions, yet the pandemic continues to course through nations. Countries like Germany, which effectively handled the first wave, are seeing an uptick in new infections -- a problem that experts say will recur until a vaccine is found.
Other countries are seeing more than 10,000 infections a day. In India, authorities are scrambling to open a Covid-19 treatment facility to deal with the surge in cases in the nation's capital, New Delhi.
The US leads with the most deaths and confirmed cases worldwide. There are at least 2,510,323 coronavirus cases and 125,539 deaths from the disease in the country.
After managing to slow the spread in May, coronavirus numbers have skyrocketed in inland states, including Texas and Arizona. Now only two US states are reporting a decline in new cases compared to last week -- Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Florida reported 9,585 new coronavirus cases Saturday, a single-day record high since the start of the pandemic. The number rivals that of New York's peak in daily cases in early April.
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