Infections in the last 24 hours, the highest on record. And numbers are spiking in other countries, too. Brazil topped 2 million cases and india has just hit 1 million. Plus, Security Officials accuse Russian Hackers of a cyber attack on Vaccine Research centers. Well hear the kremlins response. The u. S. Set another regr regrettable record on thursday with 77,000 new cases of coronavirus in a single day. The sunbelt, california to florida, is getting the worst of it. Many hospitals are already filling up. Americas Top Health Experts agree its grim. We do have a serious situation now. In the Southern States particularly exemplified by florida, california, arizona, texas have seen surges that are really quite disturbing. Surges, as you mentioned, that have gone up to over 60,000 cases a day. That obviously is something that we must address. Numbers growing weeks after most of the country had begun to reopen. Avoid another lockdown, masks are now required in more than 3 dozen states. Georgia is an exception. Governor brian kemp is suing atlantas mayor over the citys mask mandate. The push back is hard to comprehend given that masks are simple, cheap and recommended by some experts but some americans dont see it that way. This is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing. We are supposed to be physically distancing, Wearing Masks and so all of our medical people expressing their displeasure in provo, utah. The white house leans on districts to resume classes in the autumn. Its a hard sell as parents, students, teachers weigh the risk but the white house is adamant. When he says open, he means open in full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this. Texas was one of three u. S. States to post their highest one day death tolls on thursday. For more heres cnns erica hill. Reporter a stark reality in texas. Refrigerated trailers brought in as morgues reach capacity. I need everybody to help us and do their part because peoples lives are at stake. Not just the people getting sick now. Weve got doctors, nurses. Austins Convention Center and this loredo hotel also being prepped for nonicu covid19 patients. Texas is one of 16 states reporting record hospitalizations. All but two of those are also seeing a rise in deaths. It doesnt have to be this way. There are straightforward things. It requires leadership but there are straightforward things we can do. Reporter 39 states are now moving in the wrong direction. Confirmed cases in the state of florida, more than 315,000 now outpace france and china combined. Miamis hospitals are at 95 capacity. Icu beds also pushed to the limit. The situation is dire. I dont want to sugar coat it. I dont want to downplay it in any way. Reporter as cases surge in georgia, Governor Brian Kemp signing an order to ban local officials from mandating masks. Im deeply frustrated today. We believe our local orders can stand so were going to fight this. Reporter at least 39 states require face coverings in public. Arkansas and colorado adding mandates today. Target, cbs and pub blickensderfer the latest to require them for customers nationwide. The science at this point is very clear. Wearing a mask can help by five times. Reporter new Analysis Shows travel bans came too late especially for new york. The virus was already here. The northeast hit hard at the start has been Holding Steady over the past month. New cases in the midwest declining in mid june have now more than doubled. The west seeing a similar spike while the south has exploded. More than tripling its daily case count. Unlike other countries, we never got covid19 under control here. Basically we gave up. Reporter here in new york city which is set to move into phase 4 of reopening on monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo and mayor bill de blasio said that likely will not concern indoor activities. Governor cuomo concerned about indoor spaces, bars, restaurants as the virus has spread. The governor announcing three strikes and youre closed rule. Hes cracking down on bars and restaurants not abiding by social distancing and reopening measures put in place. Egregious violations could result in an immediate loss of their liquor license. In new york, im erica hill, cnn. Lets hear from dr. Darryl owe koornl. You wrote, listen to your Public Health officials. We must all act swiftly and with unity. Clearly the action hasnt been swift and theres been no unity. How surprised are you by what youre seeing, how worried . Well, thanks for having me, kim. I am surprised in the lack of unity thats been shown by our leadership across the country. Youve got the governor of georgia whos mandating you cant have masks. All the way back in march here in hawaii we realized this is one of the best things we can do to combat this illness. We dont have adequate treatments. Somebody gets really sick we have something that may sort of help but there is no cure. The cure is to prevent the transmission of this. So when we have states not allowing the best and most effective thing that we have to keep this from transmitting from person to person, its disheartening. What i wrote back in march is sadly coming true. Other countries have quite frankly far surpassed their ability to control this virus the way the United States has. Now youre on the front lines there. Are there any cases that have stayed with you that you still think about at night . Yeah. The ones that always remind you are a Family Member or the ones traveling away from their families. Quite simply, when somebody does get sick, their family isnt allowed to be by their side. Its too high of a risk to their family and to allow them into the hospital. Any of our sick cases, all of these really, really hard discussions about quite frankly life and death has to be had over the phone or face time. People cant have their hands held by their loved ones and its absolutely tragic. Its heartbreaking to see anybody about through that. I just urge people, especially my generation, im 35, all the young people out there who think theyre not invincible, you are, youre mortal. The more that youre out there not Wearing Masks and partying really and hanging out with all of your friends without properly socially distancing, the more that youre going to transmit this virus to the ones that you love. I really, really urge them to take this seriously. Thats a really Important Message because so many young people are getting infected now. You yourself are young. How do you actually get that message, that very eloquent message you just said there. How do you actually convince people who are young and feel invulnerable . Repetition. You know, there is an info demic. Opinions are flying rather than facts and scientific knowledge. Im hopeful the more people see and hear the same thing that masks work, social distancing, physical distancing works. We shouldnt be hanging out in large numbers of people. Some of it does and some of it isnt. Just got to continue to try. Im interested. Long before this pandemic you consulted on the netflix docu series, pandemic. It looks like many Public Officials werent watching that. Weve had plenty of experience dealing with this but we dont seem to have learned from that. Why has this caught us so flat footed . Thats a very, very complex question. My work on that series made it kind of surreal that the series was filmed all throughout 2019 and was released on netflix, the sixpart series, middle of january, and at the time of the virus out of wuhan. It gave a head start in recognizing the signs when china was locking down and building their own hospitals that this is a very, very serious illness and it turns out it was. Its a lack of belief of expertise in our medical professionals. Hey, look, you may hear your physician or dr. Anthony fauci recommend something, but because you have the freedom or belief to believe someone else, its one of the great things about the country, but when it comes to science and the health of this virus, the more we ignore this, the more repercussions. I hope people turn around and listen. Absolutely. Thank you so much for coming on. Dr. Oconnell in honolulu, hawaii. Appreciate it. Well, on top of the pandemic, extreme heat is making matters worse in the state of arizona. Cnn forecasts a high today in the State Capitol of phoenix, 109 degrees fahrenheit, 43 degrees celsius. Heatstroke and coronavirus can make a dangerous combination. Its gotten extremely hot in arizona. People coming in with heat strokes and infections like they did always. On top of that you have the covid patients. People are waiting in line to get tested and are fainting while waiting to get a test and are coming to the e. R. Because theyre waiting for a test and fainted. Youre getting the patients coming to the e. R. Were doing the best we can to take care of them. Despite all of that, you know, we still have the highest Positivity Rate in the country. The percent of tests that come back positive are the highest in the country still which is very widespread in the community. I dont know when its going to level off. Then 134,000 cases according to Johns Hopkins university. Maricopa county has the third highest cases of any county in the United States. When we come back, brazils coronavirus numbers are rising quickly and many critics pin the blame squarely on the president. Details next. Robinhood believes now is the time to do money. Without the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . 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Reporter brazils president announcing he tested positive again for covid19 saying hes doing better but his country isnt. His antilockdown speeches helped thrust his latin american nation to second worst in the world after the United States surpassing 2 million cases thursday and 76,000 deaths. Fellow brick nation india also in the worst throes of the pandemic. Third in the global racibarskasiracibarskas i ranking of cases and they reentered lockdown conditions this week. On yet another continent, africa, south africa facing rising caseloads overwhelming underresourced hospitals. Some staff short of ppe refusing to show up fearing for their lives. Developing nations are being the hardest hit. Latin america and the caribbean the worst. 3. 5 million infections. 150,000 deaths. Peru, which this week reopened domestic flights, second to brazil. Nearly 4,000 new cases thursday. In chile, some reason for hope. New vaccine trials could begin august. Half a planet away in japan fears of a second wave. Tokyo going onto the highest state of alert as hospitalizations rise. Elsewhere in asia, hong kong facing a possible third wave, over 60 new cases thursday. The social distancing measures eased. Australias victoria state also facing a new wave of infections. Had its worst daily rise, 317 cases. Meanwhile, europe on the down side of its first wave facing rising unemployment. More than 600,000 lost jobs in the u. K. Alone as experts forecast nearly 120,000 u. K. Covid deaths this winter. Local not National Lockdowns becoming the norm. They submit to an independent inquiry. Of course, mr. Speaker, we will seek to learn the lessons of this pandemic. Reporter this as some leaders facing protests over their handling of covid19. For several days serbs in belgrade took to the streets angry at their governments handling of lockdown. And in israel pm Benjamin Netanyahu facing protests as a second covid19 wave buffets his tiny nation. He promises massive government handouts as infection rates hit a new daily record. In spain thursday, the nation paused to remember their covid19 losses. As muchneeded tourister nations got drunk, ignored social distancing, forcing a resort to shut. Nic robertson, cnn, london. India is the third nation to see more than 1 million cases behind the u. S. And brazil. That milestone came as india also hit a new daily record. Cnns got the details from new delhi. Reporter on march 24th indias Prime Minister announced the countrys first lockdown to counter the spread of coronavirus. India had recorded over 500 covid19 cases and ten deaths till then. 3 1 2 months later according to Johns HopkinsUniversity India has the third highest number of cases in the world. The doctor who wrote a book on the pandemic says indias 1. 3 billion population is one of the many reasons for the rising numbers. India needs to impressively ramp up testing. The challenges in india, the penetration of Testing Services so there are theories but if there is one we could clearly identify, i would say its testing. Reporter while indias capitol of new delhi has the highest number among cities across the country, the government claims the situation is slowly improving. Dehli was expecting 200,000 cases by 15 july but we are in a much better situation than the mathematical projections were. But a doctor on the front line at a top private hospital advises caution in the coming weeks. We cannot let our guard down until we start seeing Community Immunity going up. Reporter despite an extended lockdown in the western state, it remains the worst affected state in india. Its capitol in the richest city mumbai, it has seen a dip in infections which according to experts says it could witness another surge after lockdown rules are relaxed. When we completely open up the lockdown and especially when the life line of mumbai is over, they will start. Reporter over 26,000 daily infections being reported since the 9th of july, some states and cities in india are reentering lockdown conditions. Currently the movement of over 400 Million People across the country has been restricted. You will see cases going down in some areas, cases coming up in other areas and we will have to be vigilant. Reporter it took india four days to add roughly 100,000 cases to its covid19 tally this week. A big challenge will now be to control new infections after areas under lockdown open up. Cnn, new delhi. South africa has crossed the threshold of 300,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, the largest number of new infections are concentrated around johannesburg, the countrys commercial center. However, the director of africas centers for Disease Control says the rates of death remains under control. Lets bring in David Mckenzie in johannesburg and joins us live. It sounds as though south africas situation continues to be a bad news good news story, right . Reporter well, thats right. Its a mixed picture. You have seen those surge in cases, particularly here in and around johannesburg. Now well over 300,000 confirmed cases in south africa. The pressure will be building in the coming week say doctors but they do say that the death rate is substantially lower than many other countries across the world and theyre hoping that will hold both here and across the continent where that situation is merited. You speak of the rest of the continent as you cast your eye across it, are there any other hot spots in africa that youre seeing that worry you . Reporter well, you know, around half of all of the confirmed cases according to the african cdc are here in south africa. That might be a virtue in part because of a lack of testing in large parts of the continent. The head of the african cdc says they need to ramp up testing significantly to get a handle on how bad the infection rate is across the continent. I think nigeria in particular, africas most popular nation is one to carefully watch. They are seeing rising cases and their testing isnt quite where it needs to be but, still, across much of the continent you havent seen the death rates according to Health Officials that youve seen in countries like the u. K. Into the u. S. That might be because of a younger population or because the pandemic hit this part of the world a bit later, but it could also be, and predictions are difficult in this pandemic, that the worst is yet to come but the key is really getting those tests ramped up significantly in many parts of the continent. Kim . Very difficult challenge. Thank you so much, David Mckenzie in johannesburg. Appreciate it. Hong kong is fighting the third wave of infections and one city warns the city hasnt reached its peak. On thursday hong kong reported the highest number of new infections since the cases started to rise weeks ago. Before that daily cases had been low for some time. Many new infections have been reported and that includes taxi drivers and restaurant staff along with some customers. Up next, accusations from the west countered by denials by the kremlin. Russianbacked hackers stand accused of stealing information again, this time about potential Coronavirus Vaccines. As we move forward, lets continue to practice these healthy habits, brought to you by lysol. Wash your hand