Some states slow reopening as coronavirus cases rise
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Qantas airlines cancels most international flights until October
From journalist Isaac Yee in Hong Kong
Australia’s Qantas Airlines announced today that it has canceled most of its international flights until late October.
"With Australia’s borders set to remain closed for some time, we have cancelled most international flights until late October," Qantas said in a statement.
"We still have some flights scheduled across the Tasman (sea) in the coming months, with the expected travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand."
Qantas said if travel between Australia and other countries begins to open back up and demand returns, the airline could add more flights to its schedule.
A spokesperson for Qantas said that despite the cancellation of most international flights, the airline is seeing increasing demand for travel within Australia, as local restrictions are slowly lifted.
Qantas Group’s domestic passenger numbers within Australia doubled this week to 64,000 from 32,000 passengers last week, according to the spokesperson.
Trump's Tulsa rally is a "recipe for disaster," says county commissioner
From CNN’s Mitchell McCluskey
US President Donald Trump’s reelection rally, scheduled for Saturday is a “recipe for disaster,” the Tulsa County Commissioner Karen Keith told CNN’s Don Lemon.
The rally is being held amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in the city.
“I would urge people to not go or experience it some other way,” Keith said.
According to Keith, the city expects more than 100,000 people to attend the rally, many of whom live outside of Tulsa.
“The outcome is not something that’s going to be good for this area,” Keith said, “I just don’t see how that works out well for us.”
Florida has "all the markings of the next large epicenter," modelers say
From CNN Health’s Jen Christensen
Florida has “all the markings of the next large epicenter" of coronavirus transmission, with the risk being the “worst it has ever been” according to new projections.
The other areas of concern for additional widespread community transmission include the Carolinas, Texas, and Arizona.
The model was put together by a team of scientists at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.
The version of this model used local data from 517 counties with active outbreaks to provide short-term forecasts of where Covid-19 cases would be.
Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has attributed the recent spike in cases in his state to aggressive testing and blames outbreaks in prisons, agricultural communities and long-term care facilities.
Experts said the numbers of new infections are definitely increasing and it’s not just because there’s more testing.
Miami and some of Florida’s southeastern counties, along with the Tampa and Fort Myers area and Orlando can expect to see a widespread transmission event and case numbers will likely then rise in the rest of the state, according to the model.
It also predicts problem spots for vacation areas like Galveston, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Bright spots: Despite reopening early, one bright spot in the model includes Atlanta and much of Georgia, which seem to have kept cases in check. The Midwest and Northeast, which have remained in lockdown longer than other areas of the country, also are predicted to see a decline in case counts through July.
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