July 19 coronavirus news

Georgia and North Carolina both reported record highs for single-day coronavirus case count increases Saturday, according to data compiled by John Hopkins University.

Georgia reported 4,688 new cases Saturday for a total of 139,880 coronavirus cases statewide.

Previously, 4,490 was the record number of cases in Georgia, reported July 10, according to the data from JHU. At least 3,000 new cases have been reported daily for the past six days.

North Carolina reported 2,522 new cases for a total of 98,092 cases statewide.

The previous record for the state was on July 10, when 2,376 new cases were reported, according to the data. There have only been four days where more than 2,000 cases were reported in a single day in the state, all since July 3.

There are 49 hospitals in Florida with 0% ICU beds available, according to Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration website as of 3 p.m. EST Sunday.

Five of those hospitals are in Broward County, just north of Miami Dade, which now has an overnight curfew in place from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily. 

Broward saw about 10,000 new cases in a week and has a positivity rate hovering just under 17%.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a tweet Sunday that the virus "is more rampant in Louisiana now than it has ever been."

What the numbers look like: 3,119 new cases of coronavirus were reported since Friday, according to a series of tweets from the Louisiana Department of Health Sunday.

The total number of cases in the state is now at 91,706, a tweet from the agency said. 

34 more deaths were reported for a total death count of 3,433 in the state. 

The Louisiana Department of Health said Saturday that updates will be provided each day at noon except for Saturdays going forward.

Read the governor's tweet:

Florida currently has 9,351 Covid-19 related hospitalizations, an increase of 189 since Saturday morning, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).   

Miami-Dade County alone has 2,008 hospitalizations while Broward County has 1,240 hospitalizations, AHCA data shows.  

Miami-Dade County ICUs are at 127% capacity with 507 admissions and 398 bed capacity, according to data from the county. According to Miami-Dade County's daily summary, "this percentage represents the number of COVID positive patients utilizing hospital beds; does not include the 1,259 acute care and ICU beds that may be converted." 

Arizona reported the highest death count in the state Saturday since the pandemic began, according to the Covid Tracking Project and data from Johns Hopkins University.

A total of 147 deaths were reported July 18, the data shows.

The previous one day record was 117 deaths on July 7, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

The positivity rate also remains high at a blistering 39.04% for July 18, according to the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute. The current 7 day average positivity rate is 24.24%.

There are at least 3,736,213 cases of coronavirus in the US, and at least 140,255 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases.

As of 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, 24,800 new cases and 136 new deaths have been reported in the US since midnight.  

The totals includes cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases.   

New Jersey reports 144 new cases of Covid-19 and 11 additional deaths from the virus, according to a tweet from Gov. Phil Murphy. 

One thing to note: The numbers listed were released by the state of New Jersey and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.

Read Gov. Murphy's tweet:

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he is on the “brink” of reissuing a stay-at-home order for the city.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union, Garcetti said on this issue that some openings happened too quickly, but not at the city level.

California has experienced a resurgence in the number of coronavirus cases. As of this morning, California reported over 380,000 cases and over 7,000 deaths. 

When asked by Tapper at what point he would reissue a stay-at-home order, he did not indicate what specific measurements they would need to see, but said, “we haven't had the level of deaths. So, we're following those very carefully. Deaths have been pretty steady. Cases have gone up, but we also have the most aggressive testing.” 

 Garcetti added that he wants to take a “surgical” approach to the situation, “I want to be more surgical. I want to go into those factories where we're seeing spread. I want to go into those communities, especially our lower-income communities.”

Indiana recorded 927 new cases of the novel coronavirus Sunday, just below its highest daily increase since the outbreak, according to the state's health department.

The state's highest daily increase was recorded on April 26, when it recorded a daily increase of 946 cases.

Indiana's total number of confirmed cases is 56,571.  

The state also reported two new deaths from the virus Sunday, bringing its death toll to 2,629.

This comes a day after Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Commissioners voted to push back the start date for public schools another two weeks to August 17.