July 13 coronavirus news

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said he shared his proposal to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for a two-week shutdown due to a rise in Covid-19 cases. 

Asked if he had spoken with Abbott about the request, he said, "I have not talked to the governor personally. I do know that he is aware of the request that I have made."

Turner said the numbers of Covid-19 cases are getting "larger and larger." 

Turner emphasized the importance of getting control of the virus this month. 

"We need to reset, especially in light of the fact that next month, you know, kids, we are talking about returning to school," he said. 

Houston reported 1,544 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 30,965 cases, with 277 deaths in the state.  

The UK government is set announce on Tuesday that wearing face masks in shops and supermarkets in England will be mandatory starting July 24.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock is expected confirm the updated government guidelines, according to a Downing Street statement.

“Guidance for other settings will be kept under review,” it added.

“There is growing evidence that wearing a face covering in an enclosed space helps protect individuals and those around them from Coronavirus,” a Downing Street spokesperson said. “The Prime Minister has been clear that people should be wearing face coverings in shops and we will make this mandatory from July 24.”

Scotland, Germany, Spain, Italy and Greece have already made it compulsory to wear face coverings inside shops.

The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) has announced in a statement that all close-contact fall sports – which includes football – will move to the spring semester.

In addition to football, this move also impacts men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball.

The NJCAA says that all winter sports competition will begin in January with a majority of championship seasons moved from March to April. Spring sports competition remains intact with minor adjustments to dates. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said “community engagement” will be the one thing that helps boost support among Americans to get a coronavirus vaccine, if and when one becomes available.

During a webinar with the Stanford School of Medicine on Monday, Fauci said this is how they did it with HIV.

“We've got to engage the community to get out there and be people who are boots on the ground – who look like and are like the people they are trying to convince – the importance of getting vaccinated, particularly in this era of anti-vax and anti-science,” he said.

Right now, there is a “network of community workers” that is training for this exact thing, Fauci said, “to go into the community and try and convince people of why it's important for them and for their families to get vaccinated.”

“As I often say, you don't really want a lot of White guys in suits like me, going into the mostly minority community, and convincing them about something that they're very deeply skeptical of. You've got to get people that the community trusts," he added.

More than 13 million globally have been infected with the novel coronavirus and more than half a million people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally.

So far on Monday, Johns Hopkins reported 13,006,764 cases worldwide, with the United States holding the highest number of confirmed cases of the virus. At least 570,776 have died from coronavirus around the world. 

The US has 3,341,838 Covid-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins, accounting for more than a quarter of the global total.

Peru surpassed 330,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases Monday, as it remains the country with the second highest number of cases in Latin America, behind Brazil.

The Peruvian health ministry reported 3,797 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total to 330,123.

The country's death toll also rose to 12,054 Monday, up 184 from the previous day.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced new requirements for face coverings and limits on social gatherings in a statement. 

Starting on July 15, Oregon’s face covering requirement will be expanded to apply to “outdoor public spaces when six feet of distance cannot be maintained,” according to the statement.

In addition, the new restrictions prohibit indoor gatherings of more than 10 people, the statement added.

The move comes in response to “the alarming rise in Covid-19” cases in the state.

“We need to do absolutely everything we can to reduce transmission in ways that do not require us to close down businesses again,” Brown said in the statement. “Either people will adhere to this requirement and be a positive force for stopping Covid-19, or I will be forced to take more restrictive measures."

Although the state has seen a rise in cases, it has not been as steep or dramatic as states like Florida or Arizona. A CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University has Oregon showing a steady trend of new cases.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said there is no good answer when it comes to who should lead the way during the coronavirus pandemic.

“That's the $64,000 question that's being debated right now in our response,” Fauci said, speaking to the Stanford School of Medicine.

The Trump administration has repeatedly said the pandemic response should mostly be led by state and local officials.

“Many of the states say ‘give us the resources, we'll take care of it.’ Others say ‘tell us what to do, and we'll do it.’ So we're a big country. We have 50 states. We have 3,007 counties. So it really is an ongoing argument,” he said.

Fauci added there are pros and cons of each approach. 

“And to be honest with you I don't have a good firm answer for you – except, you've got to figure out on a case by case basis, what the best approach would be.” 

Texas reported 5,655 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 264,313.

A total of 3,235 people have died from the virus in the state. 

One thing to note: These numbers were released by the Texas Health and Human Services, and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.