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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief
WASHINGTON, D.C.-After months of decline, the coronavirus pandemic, which began re-spiking late last month, broke another record Friday with nearly 60,000 cases in single day nationwide, a figure that brings the total in the U.S. since the pandemic broke in early March to 3.3 million confirmed or probable cases countrywide and some 136,000 deaths.
While New York still tops the list as the state with the most coronavirus cases at 427,000 confirmed cases and over 32,000 deaths, followed respectively by California, Texas ,New Jersey and Illinois to round off the top five, Ohio has reported 64,230 confirmed cases statewide and 3,041 deaths.
Neighboring Kentucky has 18,670, cases and 620 deaths, and Indiana, 51,079 cases and 2,756 deaths.
Worldwide there are 12.5 million confirmed cases and more than 560,000 deaths.
Data show that COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and two international conveyances, the U.S. leading all of the countries in both reported cases and affiliated deaths.
As Americans nationwide deal with a second spike of the virus, masks are now required in public in states, counties and cities across the country, including the 12 Ohio counties that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Thursday per his executive order for such masks.
Earlier in the week the governor announced seven counties, including Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, in which masks are required in public, the other six being Hamilton, Butler, Montgomery, Franklin, Huron, and Trumbull counties.
The GOP governor has since added five more counties to his emergency watch list, namely Clermont, Pickaway, Fairfield, Wood, Lorain and Summit counties, the 12 counties chosen based upon the number of spiking cases and other criteria determined by the governor and state officials, Ohio a state with 88 counties.
Failure to comply with Gov. DeWine's order for masks in public for select Ohio counties is a misdemeanor, at least one police department, Dayton police specifically saying it would not be enforcing any such order.
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