Arizona COVID-19 one-week snapshot, Aug. 13
Circumstances 190,794 | Deaths 4,383 | Diagnostic assessments 1,056,770
On Thursday, Aug 13, the state reported 1,351 information instances of novel coronavirus and 36 extra deaths. In accordance with state information, on Aug. 12 each intensive care unit beds and ventilators noticed slight will increase in utilization, although have typically trended downward for the previous few weeks.
Practically 20,000 Arizona companies acquired federal PPP loans
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The Paycheck Safety Program helped tens of hundreds of enormous and small Arizona firms extra simply get via the financial slowdown introduced on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This system, overseen by the federal Small Enterprise Administration and administered by banks, was a part of the $2 trillion CARES Act reduction invoice authorized by Congress in late March.
In Arizona, 19,270 loans had been granted in April and May. These loans ranged from lower than $150,000 to $10 million. The most typical loan measurement in Arizona was lower than $150,000, with 7,944 of these loans granted in Arizona, in line with the SBA. Of the remaining 11,326 loans within the state, the most typical measurement was between $150,000 and $350,000.
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Ducey upset in PAC-12 cancellation
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Fall sports activities are on maintain at PAC-12 faculties just like the College of Arizona and Arizona State College, and that has fan Gov. Doug Ducey upset.
“Over the course of time a vaccine in some unspecified time in the future, decrease positivity, extra speedy testing there’s all types of issues that we may have achieved to mitigate it from a fan or observer standpoint,” Ducey mentioned. “Among the sports activities are non-contact in any respect they usually’ve been canceled as nicely, so I used to be upset with the choice.”
Ducey mentioned the lack of fall collegiate sports activities at two of the state’s largest universities means a lack of tax income for the state. President Trump is urging school sports activities, particularly soccer, to play within the fall.
Well being consultants: Proposed asylum change would fail to guard each public well being and human rights
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The Trump administration has been asking for public suggestions on a proposal to dam would-be asylum seekers deemed prone to carrying a communicable illness. The measure is branded as a safeguard towards COVID-19 contagion, however public well being consultants warn the change would deteriorate human rights whereas failing to truly curb the pandemic.
The coverage change, proposed and opened to public remark by the administration final month, would permit immigration officers to show away asylum seekers who come from, or have traveled via, international locations the place communicable ailments are current.
Joanna Naples-Mitchell with well being advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights mentioned the proposal is the most recent in a protracted line of drastic adjustments to the immigration system. However she mentioned it is particularly harmful to color asylum seekers as a menace to public security.
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UA President Robbins optimistic about college COVID-19 take a look at outcomes
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College of Arizona president Robert Robbins says greater than 1,200 UA college students have been screened for the coronavirus and just one has examined constructive. He gave that replace throughout Thursday’s briefing on the college’s reentry plans.
Robbins says he hopes the outcome exhibits college students are making good selections about their well being. “Perhaps these college students have already had the virus or there they have been doing an ideal job of following the principles, and we hope they proceed to comply with the principles after they come again to our campus,” he mentioned.
To date the UA has solely examined college students residing off campus on a voluntary foundation. Beginning Friday, the college will start necessary testing for all college students who plan to stay in dorms on campus.
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Covid Watch app a part of UA reentry plan
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Someday earlier than the primary wave of 5,000 college students returns to the UA campus on Aug. 24, the Covid Watch Arizona app will roll out on the Apple and Android app shops. It tracks how usually the cellphone’s proprietor is available in shut contact with different customers of the identical app, so if considered one of them assessments constructive for the coronavirus, the opposite customers might be notified.
Molecular and Mobile Biology Division head Joyce Schroeder says the Covid Watch Arizona app data distinctive Bluetooth codes from the telephones of different individuals close by so these individuals might be notified if the proprietor assessments constructive for the coronavirus.
Schroeder says the app is within the closing testing part. It will likely be free and nameless, Schroeder says, however it relies on a excessive stage of acceptance by the group.
The app has drawn the eye of nationwide well being officers.
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Arizona representatives increase issues about potential Mexican produce measures
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Most of Arizona’s congressional delegation is elevating issues about potential U.S. measures towards Mexican produce imports.
Each Arizona senators and 7 representatives signed onto a latest letter to U.S. Commerce Consultant Robert Lighthizer. In it, they are saying potential so-called seasonality provisions may increase the price of tomatoes and hurt the large produce import trade of essential significance to Nogales, Arizona.
However Nogales distributor Jaime Chamberlain says the difficulty is larger than tomatoes, and a few U.S. growers are asking for measures towards many Mexican produce imports.
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Sonoran capital Hermosillo additional loosens COVID-19 restrictions
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The weekslong curfew on car journey will likely be lifted, and lots of nonessential companies will likely be allowed to reopen at lowered capability, after they’ve proven that they’re complying with new pandemic security measures.
The adjustments are supposed to help a accountable, gradual financial reopening, in line with a replica of the order. It additionally claims that the earlier measures are now not merited by the extent of hospital occupancy.
Film theaters, gyms, bars, nightclubs and casinos, amongst a number of different companies and venues, are to stay closed, in line with the order.
Tons of of latest COVID-19 instances are nonetheless being confirmed every day in Sonora, together with a number of dozen new deaths, which have been closely concentrated within the capital in latest days.
Arizona stories 1,351 extra virus instances, 36 extra deaths
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PHOENIX — Arizona well being officers are reporting 1,351 extra confirmed COVID-19 instances with 36 extra deaths. The figures reported Thursday by the Division of Well being Providers elevated the state’s totals to 190,794 confirmed instances with 4,383 deaths.
In accordance with Johns Hopkins College information analyzed by The Related Press, the 7-day rolling averages of every day new instances in Arizona and every day deaths in Arizona each dropped over the previous two weeks.
The variety of infections is considered far greater as a result of many individuals haven’t been examined, and research counsel individuals might be contaminated with the virus with out feeling sick.
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In Arizona, teams goal for 1 million voters to oust Trump
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PHOENIX — A coalition of voting rights teams in Arizona has banded along with the lofty aim of getting 1 million individuals to vote towards President Donald Trump this November.
The brand new group, Mi AZ, launched Thursday with a automobile rally exterior state authorities places of work in Phoenix. It’s concentrating on voters below 35 years of age together with individuals of coloration, hoping to defeat Trump in what’s more and more thought of a aggressive battleground state.
The marketing campaign comes as voter registration efforts have been stymied by the pandemic, forcing teams everywhere in the nation to make use of telephones and the web as a substitute of approaching individuals in particular person to attempt to get them registered.
Arizona landlords ask excessive court docket to invalidate eviction ban
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PHOENIX — Landlord advocacy teams are preventing Gov. Doug Ducey’s moratorium on evictions of people that have missed lease funds as a result of they grew to become unwell or misplaced revenue because of the coronavirus.
The Arizona Multihousing Affiliation, the Manufactured Housing Communities of Arizona and several other particular person property house owners filed a particular motion with the Arizona State Supreme Court docket Wednesday. They argue the moratorium violates the state structure’s separation of powers and its contract clause.
A consultant for rental property house owners says that 5 months after the ban was first imposed landlords are “at a breaking point.”
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Navajo man loses newest bid to delay federal execution
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FLAGSTAFF — A decide has rejected a bid from the one Native American on dying row to push again his execution date. U.S. District Decide David Campbell in Arizona issued the ruling Thursday.
Attorneys for Lezmond Mitchell had argued the federal execution should adjust to Arizona regulation in searching for the delay. Campbell mentioned the attorneys did not establish any procedures in Arizona statutes or prison guidelines that battle with federal protocol in terms of how Mitchell would die. Mitchell’s attorneys mentioned they may attraction. The Justice Division did not reply to a request for remark.
Mitchell is scheduled to be put to dying Aug. 26 in Indiana.
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Extreme warmth to bake US Southwest via coming weekend
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PHOENIX — Extreme warmth is predicted throughout the U.S. Southwest into early subsequent week, with forecasters warning of temperatures over 110 levels in desert cities similar to Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Excessive temperatures are anticipated to be the norm via Monday throughout a lot of Arizona, and the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned excessive temperature data may be damaged in central and jap New Mexico. Temperatures had been anticipated to succeed in 114 levels in Phoenix on each Friday and Saturday and 113 levels in Las Vegas on Sunday.
The 5-day forecast might be described by one phrase…HOT! Temps heat as much as round 114° by Friday and keep there for awhile.
An Extreme Warmth Watch begins Wednesday in Phoenix, and Thursday throughout a lot of the decrease deserts, and is now in impact via Monday. #azwx #cawx pic.twitter.com/70sKN8sIUI
— NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) August 11, 2020
