By Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Mike Hayes, Julia Hollingsworth, Amy Woodyatt and Adam Renton, CNN
From CNN's Tina Burnside
The Florida Department of Health is reporting 5,266 additional coronavirus cases, bringing the state total to 146,341, according to data released by the state on Monday.
The number is down from the weekend's record-breaking daily totals:
Here's a look at daily news cases in the state over the past two weeks:
From CNN’s Annie Grayer
More than 160 college admission deans released a collective statement on Monday articulating how their priorities of the college admissions process have shifted as the result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The joint statement — signed by deans at numerous prestigious colleges and universities, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale — sends the signal that students’ academic work will be evaluated in the context of the obstacles created by the pandemic.
The statement emphasizes that students’ focus should be on self-care, care for others, promoting equity, balance and meaningful learning. It was sponsored by the Making Caring Common project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
“No student will be disadvantaged because of a change in commitments or a change in plans because of this outbreak, their school’s decisions about transcripts, the absence of AP or IB tests, their lack of access to standardized tests (although many of the colleges represented here don’t require these tests) or their inability to visit campus. We will also view students in the context of the curriculum, academic resources, and supports available to them” the statement reads.
The college admission deans call on students to share how they have been impacted by the pandemic, and to highlight ways in which they have provided service to others and their families during this turbulent time in their applications.
The statement also makes clear that students will not be penalized for not being able to engage in extracurricular and summer activities.
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hopes to avert labor layoffs in October from the $1 billion budget cuts.
“We now have to go ahead in this budget and put a billion dollars of labor savings. Hopefully we can find a way with labor to avert layoffs, it’s not a given, but if we cant find a way then October 1 is when that would begin.”
What's this about: Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that New York City might have to cut as many as 22,000 municipal jobs to help cover a massive budget shortfall due to the coronavirus.
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
The daily Covid-19 indicators remain under desired thresholds, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday
“The New York City story is pretty damn good” when it comes to the “comeback,” he said.
What the numbers say: The daily number of people admitted to hospitals in New York City for Covid-19 is at 51, under the 200 threshold. The number is up but not a “huge amount” de Blasio noted.
The daily number of people in hospital ICU’s is at 297, under the 375 threshold.
The percent of people who tested positive for Covid-19 is at 2% — under the 15% threshold.
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
New York City will reexamine and possibly pause indoor dining, which had been set to resume next week in phase three of reopening, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The decision comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the US.
The rest of phase three is moving on pace for next Monday, July 6, de Blasio said, “but the indoor dining element is now in question.”
He added that it may be paused or modified and there will be more to come in the next few days.
What is “clearly working” is outdoor dining, de Blasio said, adding “we want to double down on outdoor dining.” The city will be reaching out to every restaurant that has not yet applied to help foster this progress.
New York City moved into phase two of reopening last week, which allowed restaurants to resume dine-in service outside.
De Blasio also announced today that barbecue areas in parks will be open for this coming July 4 weekend.
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From CNN's Tina Burnside
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez said the reopening of beaches is not the reason for the spike in coronavirus cases in South Florida — it's "younger people basically disregarding the rules."
"It's coincidental that two weeks after demonstrations happen here in Miami-Dade county, a lot by young people, that we've had this spike," Giménez said during an interview on CNN on Monday.
The mayor said he is closing the beaches for Fourth of July weekend to avoid the surge of people who are thinking about coming to the beach for the holiday.
"I was afraid, though, of a surge of people coming in for the Fourth of July weekend, and our inability, possible inability to control that. That's why we closed the beaches for the Fourth of July," Giménez said.
The beach closures come as Florida is among at least 10 states seeing a 50% or more increase in Covid-19 cases compared to the previous week.
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From CNN’s Sharif Paget in Atlanta
Bolivia reported a total of 1,014 deaths from Covid-19, according to figures released by the country’s Health Ministry Monday.
Bolivia now exceeds the 1,000-figure mark, with the addition of 44 new deaths reported in the last 24-hour period, according to the ministry’s statistics.
There are 848 new infections across Bolivia, bringing the total figure of confirmed cases to 31,524, Monday’s statistics show.
From CNN’s Claudia Rebaza in London.
Argentina reported 2,189 new Covid-19 cases as the total number of infections reached 59,933, according to data released by the country’s Health Ministry on Monday morning.
The country’s death toll stands at 1,245, with 13 new deaths.
During the Ministry’s morning briefing Carla Vizzotti, Health Access Secretary, highlighted that almost 95% of the new cases reported belong to the Buenos Aires metro region (AMBA).
On Friday evening, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández reimposed a lockdown in the metro area of Buenos Aires due to “cases growing exponentially.” Fernández announced that residents will have to stay at home unless they are performing essential work or purchasing necessary provisions from July 1 to July 17.
The president said that “practically 97 percent” of the cases reported in the last few days had been reported in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area.
President Fernández himself has been in self-isolation due to the pandemic at his official residence Quinta de Olivos since June 17.
From journalist Esha Mitra
The state of Maharashtra, home to the financial hub Mumbai and Bollywood film production, will continue with lock down measures until July 31 as the number of cases steadily rise.
The state government has issued fresh guidelines for what it has named "Mission Begin Again." This includes movement for non-essential activities to be restricted within neighborhoods in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
"It is further directed that the movement of persons for the purposes of non-essential activities like shopping and the outdoor exercises, shall be restricted within the neighborhood area limits with all necessary prescribed mandatory precautions of wearing masks, social distancing and personal hygiene," a statement issued by the government read.
Only those going to work in offices and emergencies will be allowed unrestricted movement, the statement added.
"It is also directed that unrestricted movement will be permitted only for attending place of work and bonafide humanitarian requirement including medical reason.”
All essential shops, e-commerce activity for essential and non-essential items, all industrial units that are currently operational and home delivery of food will be allowed.
All essential and non-essential shops and market, except malls and market complexes, will be allowed to open from 9 am to 5 pm.
Wearing of masks, social distancing and maintaining personal hygiene will continue.
