October 13 coronavirus news

At least 26 schools in Michigan are reporting outbreaks of Covid-19 totaling 116 new cases, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday.

This is in addition to the 5,151 Covid-19 cases already reported from outbreaks in 81 schools. Michigan includes K-12 and colleges among its count.

The department defines an outbreak as “two or more Covid-19 cases who may have shared exposure on school grounds and are form different households.”

Michigan schools have a choice of specifying if the cases are from students, staff or both so these numbers are not all a direct comparison.

Of the 26 schools to report new outbreaks, 7 are from preschool through elementary schools, 7 are from middle schools, 6 are from high schools and 6 are from college. Kalamazoo reported the highest number of new cases, with a total of 21, which includes both students and staff.

Of the 81 ongoing school outbreaks, 17 are from pre-school through elementary schools, 7 are from middle schools, 26 are from high schools, 30 are from colleges, and one is from a graduate school. Michigan State University has the most cumulative cases at 1,531, which includes both students and staff.

The data is updated on Mondays by 3 p.m.

Note: These numbers were released by Michigan's HHS Dept. and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.

The National Football League and NFL Players Association confirmed that eight players and seven staffers tested positive for coronavirus between Oct. 4 and Oct. 10.

This brings the NFL’s total number of positive cases to 39 players and 60 other personnel since Covid-19 monitoring testing began Aug. 1.

Eighteen employees from a United States Postal Service processing center in Las Vegas have tested positive for coronavirus since Sept. 26, USPS spokesperson Rod Spurgeon tells CNN. There are 775 employees that work at the facility.

Spurgeon said they’re continuing with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's protocols, such as social distancing, mask wearing and sanitizing, but there has been no "operational impact" at the center.

The condition of the employees who tested positive will be kept confidential, according to Spurgeon.

A patient in Mexico tested positive for Covid-19 and influenza, José Luis Alomía, the health ministry's director of epidemiology, confirmed Sunday.

This is the first case in the country where a patient has tested positive for both viruses simultaneously.

Alomía, speaking during a nightly briefing in Mexico City, reported that the 54-year-old patient has a history of autoimmune disease, cancer, obesity and chronic lung disease.

Health authorities confirmed the patient remains hospitalized and in stable condition.

There are at least 7,817,863 cases of coronavirus in the US and at least 215,355 people have died from the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

So far today, Johns Hopkins has recorded 13,664 new cases and 270 reported deaths.

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

Nineteen student-athletes from the swimming and diving teams at the University of Delaware were sanctioned and suspended after violating the school's Covid-19 protocol, the university confirmed on Tuesday.

According to a statement from a university spokesperson, the suspensions were issued after a "large indoor social gathering hosted on September 26, 2020 at an off campus residence."

The school said all student-athletes who attended the gathering were quarantined and tested for Covid-19, all tested negative.

The latest numbers: The University of Delaware has reported at least 361 cases of Covid-19 since Aug. 30, according to the school's online Covid dashboard. The university's protocol includes a surveillance testing pool where groups are tested twice per week.

Facebook announced on Tuesday that it will no longer allow ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated. 

"Ads that advocate for or against legislation or government policies around vaccines – including a COVID-19 vaccine – are still allowed,” the company wrote.  

Facebook also said it will be rolling out the ad ban in the coming days.

The test positivity rate across New York City is 1.90%, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. 

The mayor did not immediately specify if this test positivity rate included the hotspot areas across the city.  

As of October 11, there were 520 confirmed Covid-19 cases across the city, according to de Blasio. 

At least 59 people were admitted to NYC Heath and Hospitals for Covid-19, according to data collected on October 11, the mayor said. 

NOTE: These numbers were released by the city of New York and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.

After self-quarantining for several days the US Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville has returned to work.

“I’ve been screened and tested multiple times,” McConville told reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday, adding “I’ve been cleared by the docs to come back in.”

McConville and other members of the Joint Chiefs, except the commandant of the Marine Corps, self-quarantined after attending a meeting attended by the Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard who tested positive for coronavirus.

The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps subsequently tested positive for the coronavirus.