By Julia Hollingsworth, Adam Renton, Ivana Kottasová, Fernando Alfonso III and Amir Vera, CNN
From CNN's Sheena Jones
New Jersey has reported 331 new cases of Covid-19 and six additional deaths from the virus, according to a tweet from Gov. Phil Murphy.
The state has a total of 182,350 cases from the virus and 13,961 deaths, the tweet said.
Note: These numbers 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.
From CNN's Sheena Jones
New York City submitted its plan to reopen schools on Friday night and what was submitted “looked more like an outline and not a plan,” New York State Department of Education spokesperson Jim Malatras said Sunday.
The plan was about 30 pages and other plans were more detailed, Malatras said.
The New York State Department of Education has not had a chance to fully review the plan submitted by New York City because it was submitted late Friday evening, Malatras said.
CNN has reached out to the New York City Department of Education for comment.
Cuomo said he wants to know how testing will be done and reiterated it is about the parents being comfortable when it comes to the school reopening plans.
"Just because a school district says 'we are open' does not mean students are going to go,” Cuomo said.
The governor said he has been talking to parents across the state and “there is going to have to be some dialogue” about schools reopening.
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
Following Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's comments that the administration and GOP are not going to support a $1 trillion proposal for state and local governments, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would not be "negotiating in public."
"[W]e need a strong robust bill; we believe the House bill $915 billion is adequate and needed and we’re going to fight for it," Schumer told CNN.
When asked if $600 unemployment is non-negotiable, he said “I’m not arguing in public, we believe 600 is what we need.”
Schumer said that people who lost their job for no fault of their own do not need to suffer an over 30% pay cut.
From CNN's Naomi Thomas
Contact tracing can be very effective during the early or late parts of an outbreak, but when there is widespread outbreak, mitigation measures are more important according to Adm. Brett Giroir, a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force.
��Yes, contact tracing is important,” Giroir said on NBC on Sunday, “but it’s much less important right now than the public policy mitigation measures.”
Contact tracing can be very effective, he said, during the very early parts of an outbreak.
“When you have a widespread, multi-focal outbreak, where many people are asymptomatic, testing and tracing are of limited utility versus public health policy measures,” Giroir said.
Once the virus is back to very low levels, he said, testing and contact tracing become much more important.
“Where we are right now, with the widespread, multi-focal, across many states, just like many other countries, the solution was the mitigation steps, not the contact tracing,” Giroir said.
From CNN's Sheena Jones
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said when it comes to reporting the latest Covid-19 numbers, it is “all very good news.”
Of the 58,951 total tested, 531 people tested positive for Covid-19 across the state, which brings the state to a 0.09% positive rate, Cuomo said.
Cuomo said 556 people are hospitalized with the virus and that is “the lowest number since we began."
Intensive care unit admission is down to 141 people, with 71 people intubated, the governor said.
Three people were reported dead from the virus, the governor said.
Some context: The state has performed more than 6 million Covid-19 diagnostic tests since March, Cuomo said.
From CNN's Naomi Thomas
Hydroxychloroquine is not recommended as a treatment for Covid-19, Adm. Brett Giroir, a member of the White House coronavirus task force said on NBC on Sunday.
“At this point in time, there’s been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials, that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine,” Giroir said. “So, at this point in time, we don’t recommend that as a treatment.”
Giroir said that hydroxychloroquine needs to be prescribed by a physician, and there may be circumstances where it is prescribed, in response to a question about the potentially mixed messages that are being sent out about the drug.
“But I think most physicians and prescribers are evidence based and they’re not influenced by whatever is on Twitter or anything else,” he said. “And the evidence just doesn’t show that hydroxychloroquine is effective right now.”
Giroir said that he thinks “we need to move on from that and talk about what is effective.”
This includes public health measures like hand washing and mask wearing, and therapeutics and treatments that are known to be effective.
“We have many things that do work,” Giroir said. “Right now, hydroxychloroquine, I can’t recommend that."
More details: Giroir said that there were other therapeutics which have shown promise, such as remdesivir and steroids which have reduced mortality. He also said that while they still don’t know about immune plasma, there are trials and it has worked in other cases.
From CNN's Melissa Alonso
The state of Florida has reported 7,047 new cases of Covid-19 among Floridians and 62 additional resident deaths on Sunday, according to Florida Department of Health (DOH).
There are now 481,668 cases among residents and 487,132 total cases in the state, including out of state residents, DOH reports. Florida has reported 7,084 resident deaths to date, DOH data shows.
There are currently 7,985 people hospitalized in Florida with Covid-19, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).
Florida’s state-supported Covid-19 testing sites in the path of Tropical Storm Isaias on Florida’s east coast have been temporarily closed since Thursday evening in anticipation of Hurricane Isaias, CNN has reported.
One thing to note: These numbers were released by Florida's public health agency, and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.
From CNN’s Arnaud Siad in London
There are 36 crew members on Norwegian Arctic cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen who have tested positive for coronavirus, Hurtigruten Cruises said in a statement Saturday.
As a result, 387 passengers from two July expeditions on the cruise ship have been asked to self-quarantine.
According to the statement, on Friday four crew members tested positive after they had been in isolation for “several” days ago for showing “other disease symptoms” but none associated with Covid-19.
“The safety and well-being of our guests and crew is Hurtigruten’s number one priority. All crew members are closely monitored and screened daily," the company said the statement.
Additional testing of the entire crew concluded that 32 other crew members were infected with Covid-19, bringing the total to 36.
More details: The ship is currently docked in Tromsø, Norway, with no passengers on board. It was scheduled to sail to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago north of Norway, on Friday afternoon. That trip has now been cancelled. The MS Roald Amundsen had two expeditions to the Arctic, one on July 17 with 109 guests, and another on July 24 with 178 guests on board.
From CNN Health’s Naomi Thomas
In areas with widespread case increases, the cases need to be stopped first before there can be talks about reopening schools safely, according to Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus task force coordinator.
“I certainly would endorse what Dr. Redfield is saying,” she said on CNN on Sunday. “In the areas where we have this widespread case increase, we need to stop the cases and then we can talk about safely reopening.”
“If you have high caseload and active community spread, just like we are asking people not to go to bars, not to have household parties, not to create large spreading events, we are asking people to distance learn at this moment so we can get this epidemic under control,” she added.
As coordinator for the task force, Brix said that she works with Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and looks at the data every single day and that she would do “what the CDC guidelines have recommended, and certainly the director.”
