Coronavirus cases rising in 41 states as Republicans scale back convention

• Record new cases in California, Florida, Texas and Arizona
• Georgia governor suspends local mask mandates

Covid-19 infections are rising in 41 US states, with some southern hotspots taking crisis measures on Thursday, including calling in military medics and parking mobile morgue trucks outside hospitals, echoing scenes in New York City when it became the center of the world outbreak in the spring.

The spread of the virus has resulted in almost 56,000 hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the US currently. A month ago hospitalizations were rising in 11 states; now they are rising in 33 states.

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