Only three other states - California, Florida and New York - have more than 400,000 total cases. Georgia, which borders Florida, reported 54 more deaths on Tuesday as its total number of cases rose to more than 175,000, according to its state health department. There is, however, a glimmer of hope in the data from Texas, where the state health department reported that current hospitalisations due to COVID-19 fell on Monday. Senate Republicans pushed back against their own party's $1 trillion coronavirus package, which was hammered out with the White House and touted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a "tailored and targeted" plan. But it would slash the current expanded unemployment benefit from $600 per week in addition to state unemployment to $200 per week.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 28, 2020 20:26 UTC