welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching cnn. i'm robyn curnow. so just ahead on the show, health officials would describe it as a coronavirus nightmare. crowds of people flocking to beaches and pools for the holiday weekend as florida surpasses new york's daily case record. plus america's youth become the latest victims of gun violence. one city's mayor is saying enough is enough. and then later, top economists lower their predictions for u.s. economic growth. what they suggest can be done to reset and prevent another slump.

great to have you along. thanks for joining me. so we're learning more about how coronavirus is spread and the dangers of doing something as simple as talking or sneezing. a group of health experts warns that even tiny droplets from your mouth or nose can linger in the air and penetrate more deeply into your lungs. they say this underscores why it's just so important to wear a mask. and the u.s. far and away as you can see here has the most cases in the world. new cases are still in the rise across much of the country. we are several months into this pandemic and only three states are seeing fewer cases day to day. a member of the president's corona task force talked with dana bash about how to get the numbers down. >> so we know cases are surging

in the country. we've all seen the graphs associated with that. and it's too early and i'm not going to speculate on what the causation is there. what i can tell you is the way out of this, dana, the way out of this for all americans is to follow the cdc and the white house task force guidelines. social distance, wear a mask if you find yourself in a situation where you can't social distance. good hand hygiene. all the things that i would tell my patients. and if you're near someone who's vulnerable and think you've been exposed, please take care and avoid exposing that person who's vulnerable. ♪ >> apparently not too concerned about contracting the virus. this instagram video shows a huge group of people on saturday at a 4th of july party on diamond lake in southwest michigan. no masks, as you can see, no social distancing. we're told this was a party for the residents of a county who have celebrated the fourth of july this way for 30 years. and then on sunday at noah's

park at water park in wisconsin take a look at this. a large gathering of people there disregarding vital social distancing guidelines as well. and florida is seeing more coronavirus infections than ever. officials there say things are likely to get worse before they get better. i want you to take a look at the state now that has more than 200,000 confirmed cases on saturday. florida broke new york's record for the highest number of new cases in a single day. we're still waiting to see all from the fallout from a very busy and very dangerous 4th of july weekend. as boris sanchez now reports. >> reporter: we saw a record-breaking fourth of july holiday weekend for the state of florida. more than 40,000 new coronavirus cases in only the first four days of july for the sunshine state. keep in mind last month in june they saw 100,000 new cases roughly the entire month. the concern is real, and soed is demand for testing. outside the miami beach convention center this weekend

we saw sizable crowds line up both on foot and in their vehicles. some 1,200 tests were administered. and they actually had to close early because they ran out of tests. now, local officials are concerned that folks may not be following the social distancing guidelines and that's why we're seeing the surges that we are. we spoke with the mayor of miami beach, dan gel behr. he shared his concerns with us. listen to this. >> how do you tell somebody to have to wear a mask and be socially distanced when the president doesn't and hosts a rally where they're almost celebrating the lack of those simple countermeasures? so really we're not on the same page. there's not unity in the -- in our community or any community right now. and i really feel like that's the greatest challenge. if people listened and did what made sense and what was healthy we'd get through this much better. >> reporter: the big open question is what happens next? two weeks from now specifically with the covid-19 numbers. remember, coronavirus carries that 14-day incubation period.

and after another holiday weekend in previous months, a memorial day weekend, we saw a surge in cases nationwide because people were ignoring social distancing. so what happens in two weeks? will we wind up seeing even bigger numbers than the record-breaking ones we saw this weekend? boris sanchez, cnn, miami beach. so another so-called sun belt state strug well a surge is texas. it's approaching 200,000 cases. the areas you see in red are the hardest hit. and that includes harris county, where houston is located. the city's hospitals are under heavy, heavy strain. the texas governor has issued an executive order making face coverings mandatory for most people across the state. now, the resurgence of infectionsize certainly pitting mayors of hot spot cities against their governors. a prime example is arizona. cases there are skyrocketing. the mayor of phoenix criticized the governor for initially not allowing local leaders to impose face mask requirements. and she says arizona had no business reopening as quickly as

it did. >> we opened way too early in arizona. we were one of the last states to go to stay at home and one of the first to re-emerge and we reemerged at zero to 60. we had crowded nightclubs handing out free champagne, no masks. >> she went on to say that it still takes too long to get tested and that large gatherings remain a problem. evan mcmorrison reports now from a lake in phoenix. >> reporter: over the past seven days arizona had the highest average per capita infection rate of anywhere in the united states. thousands of new cases are being reported every day. icu beds are hovering around 90% capacity for the past few days. it's with that background that the governor and public health officials urged arizonans to mark this holiday weekend with social distancing and refraining from large gatherings. but here at the shawaro lake

federal recreation area masks were few and far between. people gathered in groups on the water socially distant, and they gath querd in groups on beaches, socially distant. but in public gathering spajz they were close together, with few masks to be seen. the exact kind of situation that public health officials were hoping to avoid. evan mcmorris-santoro, cnn, saguaro lake, arz. spain has ordered its second lockdown in two days after another outbreak of the virus there. 70,000 people. that's after nearly 100,000 people who visited local bars tested positive. officials have ordered bars to limit themselves to 50% capacity and to close early. on saturday catalonia announced a lockdown affecting 200,000 people. officials in england also keeping a close eye on pubs and restaurants, which reopened over the weekend. thousands filled the public

spaces on saturday and sunday. these people clearly not wearing face masks. police say it was crystal clear that drunk people were unable to practice social distancing. the company hopes to avoid another national lockdown. the government said it will focus on local closures if needed. well, for more on all of this i'm joined by dr. ron daniels. he's an intensive care darkt with nhs in the uk. good to speak with you again. we've spoken a few times over the last few months. i want to get your perspective. you're an icu doctor. you've been treating very, very sick patients. you've had covid yourself. what were your feelings when you saw folks lining up and squashing together in pubs in the uk over the weekend? >> well, mixed feelings really. there's obviously -- there's disbelief, there's shock, there's astonishment that people could be so irresponsible. but of course we've had these small tests. we've had large gatherings. we had a heat wave back in may in the uk. we've had the black lives matter

protests. we've had lots of people congregating before. and thus far we've not seen a national second wave as a consequence. so i think those feelings of shock and astonishment are also tempered by an understanding that people have been warned about this second wave and it's not yet happened. >> okay. that's interesting. i also want to get your take as a doctor, and it's because you've really been at the front line of all of this. there are? new research scientists saying even the smallest of these airborne particles can be dangerous, it's not just the big cough or the sneeze, that these smaller ones can penetrate deeper into the lungs. how important is droplet size in terms of the people who get really sick? >> well, it's critically important. and people will read in the newspapers about the difference between a droplet and an aerosol. and the principle is that aerosols, the virus particles can carry in smaller particles and can carry a much further distance, four meters, eight

meters even, which would mean social distancing would be almost unworkable and economic recovery would be prolonged even further. but this is not an exact science. a particle doesn't suddenly decide to be less than five microns large and go hey, i'm an aerosol. there are droplets of various sizes. and the reality is that this is -- it's about pragmatics. it's about understanding that a majority of transfer is droplet. we've always known that a small minority would be aerosol. understanding that it's very difficult to contain aerosol-based spread, particularly in confined spaces that aren't well ventilated. and yes, if the droplets get further into a patient's lungs, it's more likely they're going to be sicker for longer. >> of all the patients you've treated over the past few months, what -- have you been able to get anecdotal evidence of how they got infected? is there something that you've seen or spoken to them or their families in terms of warnings for people who haven't had to go through the experience of being in the icu on this?

>> well, in a culturally diverse city such as birmingham where i work there are lots of different responses to government calls to lockdown. the sort of -- the white middle class and certain other sectors have behaved largely reasonably appropriately and followed guidelines. well, some other cultures within our city tend to exist in larger family units. they tend to have multiple generations of the same family living in one property. and there are certain sectors of the population from some countries who have not really socially distanced very well. so this is about cultural behavior rather than simply saying to another person from my own sector of society you need to behave in this way. but the reality is a lot more people i believe have been exposed to this virus already than we currently think. we've seen evidence of rising recently out of scandinavia suggesting that actually twice as many people have been affected and are immune through the t cell response than we

previously thought. so we're seeing now these hot spots rising in areas that haven't previously been heavily exposed, but as i said before, what we haven't seen is large national scale second waves occurring. >> yeah. and just talk us through what you're seeing. as i mentioned, you and a number of your fellow icu doctors have had covid. how are you guys managing? and particularly i want to talk about the physical and psychological recovery afterwards. the fact that it takes so long for many people. >> yeah. and we've seen on social media the term long covid coined. and this is -- this shouldn't be a surprise to intensive care clinicians. we've seen this with the most severe people -- severely ill people in intensive care for many years. we have an entity known as post-sepsis syndrome, for example. so it's unsurprising the recovery is prolonged. but among the health professions this is going to hit hard. i was in a handover the other night, and i was just starting a night shift. there were six doctors in that handover.

four of us had had covid. and each person had been off sick for at least a week, and one person for 50 days. now, the physical aftereffects mean that people have fatigue easily, they can't exercise as readily, but there's also the cognitive and psychological. people can't concentrate as well as they used to. their judgment might be impaired. and stress. mental health issues are going to be a big problem in the health professions. not specially for the health professions but mindful that health professions have been really hard hit by this illness. >> yeah, certainly. and as you look back, we're only halfway through 2020. sadly, we've got another -- you know, another six months to go. what are the lessons as a front line doctor? as you look at all this new research coming in, as you look at what we know, what are the main lessons you've learned in terms of treating covid patients? what will you take through the next few months? >> the biggest sort of top-level lesson i've learned is that it's important for health

professionals, it's important for medical societies to acknowledge that there's a lot we don't know about a lot of stuff. and i think that's come through with this pandemic. it's been okay for doctors to be speaking on national and international television and saying look, we don't understand this yet. we've learned that it's great to share. we had early data coming in from wuhan, from italy, from spain. experiences from colleagues saying yeah, hey, i don't really know what we're doing with this virus but here are some of the early lessons that we've learned. so it's good to share and it's good to listen. i think we have noticed, particularly my experience in the nhs, but in many countries that we can build surge capacity very quickly and actually our health systems are largely pretty resilient and good at that. and that's important. but in terms of the lower-level stuff, we ventilated people too quickly early on. we did trak yost mis too early. we got excited about magic

bullet therapies, and the reality is they didn't work. we've heard about dexamethasone recently. but we have to be conscious that the studies are not the usual level of evidence. so it might be that the effect of dexamethasone is slightly smaller than we thought. there's a lot we still don't know. i think we are learning to wait a bit longer before we start ventilating patients to look at their symptoms rather than their numbers. and i think we are managing people a lot better now than we were early on. and indeed mortality figures seem to bear that out. >> okay. always good to speak to you. thanks so much. dr. ron daniels there. appreciate it. have a lovely day. okay. so you are watching "cnn newsroom." still to come, it has been a deadly weekend in the u.s. and not just because of the coronavirus. how city leaders are begging communities to fight gun violence that's killing children. also, he was the first hong kong resident to be charged under a new security law. now 23-year-old protester is preparing to make his first court appearance. we'll be live from hong kong with the details.

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it wasn't just a holiday weekend in the u.s. it was also a weekend of

devastating, devastating gun violence. and many of the victims were children. here in atlanta four people were killed, including 8-year-old zacharia turner. she died just across the street from where rayshard brooks was killed by police weeks ago and where widespread protests broke out. atlanta's mayor says it's not enough to protest against police violence. she wants communities to do more than that. >> we've talked a lot about what we are demanding from our officers and our communities. we've protested. we've demonstrated. we've been angry. we've cried. we've demanded action. well, now we're demanding action for secoriea turner and for all of the other people who were shot in atlanta last night and

over the past few weeks because reality is this. these aren't police officers shooting people on the streets of atlanta. these are members of the community shooting each other. and in this case it is the worst possible outcome. there were two other people who were actually shot and killed last night and several others. enough is enough. >> an 11-year-old boy was killed saturday night in washington, d.c. davon mcneal was shot outside his auntie's house. his grandmother says the family was supposed to be out of town but v but they canceled the trip because of the pandemic only for davon to be killed in their own back yard. and then in chicago a 7-year-old grirl visiting her grandmother was fatally shot on saturday while playing with a group of friends. she's one of 67 people who shot over the weekend in the city. that's according to cnn affiliate wls. 13 people died including a 14-year-old. chicago mayor lori lightfoot

tweeted this about the 7-year-old, saying she joined a list of teenagers and children whose hopes and dreams were ended by the barrel of a gun. and turning now to hong kong. the first person to be charged under a new national security law is expected to appear in court any moment now. police say the 23-year-old man violated the new law at a protest on wednesday. he's accused of injuring officers and carrying a flag that said "liberate hong kong." china enacted a law last week to crack down on what it considers subversion and terrorism. anna coren is live now outside the court where the man is expected to appear. anna, tell us what's happening. >> reporter: yeah. robyn, the pac-12 has just arrived here in court. as you can see it's a bit of a media frenzy. we don't know which vehicle he's in. but as you can see, photographers trying to get a glimpse of yun kit tong. he's the 23-year-old man who's been charged under this new national security law. he's one of ten people who were

arrested on the 1st of july when he rode his motorcycle with a flag saying liberate hong kong. you can see the security coming out as photographers try to get a glimpse of this man who had been arrested. he had a flag on the back of miz mo his motorcycle on the 1st of july. oh, my goodness. wow. the red tape. this orange side, this famous red tape that they put up, that means demonstrations you cross. and this photographer, the police officer just raised his gun at him. i mean, these are interesting times, robyn. i tell you. here in hong kong. this new national security law is supposed to restore civility to the streets here that have been roiled with protests for over a year.

but there's a great deal of fear as to what these new laws mean. they're cracking down obviously on secession, subversion, terrorism and colluding with foreign forces. people now can't chant slogans like "liberate hong kong," "revolution in our time." the flag this man was waving. he crashed into police as he was going around a corner. many believe it was an accident, that he basically spun out of control as he was going around this corner. the police are saying that he injured police officers and that this was a terrorist activity. but as i said, he's one of ten people arrest on the 1st of july. the other nine were released on bail. he's the only one who has been charged under this new national security law. 370 people in total were arrested when thousands of people were arrested on the streets protesting the new national security law.

>> i want to ask what kind of punishment, what this young man might face if he's found guily.y bearing in minds there were warnings that said in hong kong you could break the law even without knowing you were breaking it. and this might have been what happened with this young man. rrmtd well, that's right. people were flying around that flag for over a year and then suddenly on the 1st of july it suddenly became illegal to possess it. you talk about the sentence. well, the maximum sentence for breaking this law is life in prison. in exceptional cases people could be taken to mainland china and have their cases heard, tried on the mainland. and these people spend their sentence in a mainland prison. i mean, make no mistake about it, robyn, they are going to make an example of this man. the idea of this law is to

create fear, is to intimidate. and they are already doing that. people are extremely concerned about what they can say, what they can have on a pamphlet. in saying that, protesters are coming out with new and creative ideas. still chanting slogans but without using those specific words. still saying glory to hong kong. that anthem that the protesters adopted but changing the words. people here in hong kong determined to continue to voice their opposition to this new security law which really is worse than what anybody actually anticipated. when this protest movement began over a year ago, people fighting for democracy, fighting for greater freedoms in hong kong, no one would ever have envisaged that this would have taken place where words like liberate and revolution, we cannot say here in hong kong. there is concern over what is this going to mean for schools, for universities. obviously for the press.

carrie lam, the city's chief executive, has come out and said freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, that is not going to be affected. but if what we've witnessed since the 1st of july is any indication as to how it's going to play out here in hong kong, you can only gather in the street if police give you a permit. so anyone protesting this national security law will not allowed to protest. that is the end of the story. this isn't just about protect national security, robyn. this is about protecting the ccp, protecting the communist party. back to you. >> okay. thanks so much. we'll come back to you if there are any more developments. anna coren on the ground in hong kong. thanks, anna. so you're watching cnn. still to come, on independents day president trump practically ignored the pandemic that killed nearly 130 americans. we'll tell you how one of his own experts responded to the president's dangerous message. >> now we have tested almost 40

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in the coming hours the u.s. death toll from coronavirus will hit 130,000 people. with the country fast approaching 3 million infections, the most in the world by far. you can see it's been a strong and steady climb since late march. the hardest-hit states are two of america's most famous and populous. new york was hammered by the pandemic early on but this week

it's taking another step toward reopening. whereas parts of california are reimposing restrictions out of fear they were lifted just too soon. and then just minutes ago we learned california has set the new all-time record for the highest single-day coronavirus cases, nearly 12,000 people were reported on sunday of this fourth of july weekend. paul vercammen is in sanita monica, california with all of that. >> reporter: if you look, they took the extraordinary step of closing down all beaches in l.a. county, santa barbara county, ventura county, almost all of orange county, all of it to prevent the spread of covid-19. many people feeling including state officials that the state reopened too soon in populous counties. and they also sort of pointed to bars saying a lot of young people had gone out to those bars, they were letting down their guard, not wearing their masks, not staying away from each other by six feet and that when they talked loudly they were projecting and that could

send the virus out airborne. so we spoke to some people here about what they think possibly could have happened. >> i do think too quickly perhaps -- i'm going to say young people and perhaps the marches and protests and so forth i think increased the number of covid cases. people were probably not wearing masks. >> there's going to be many more fourth of julys coming up. so i think as long as we can protect those that are the elderly and those with underlying conditions that's what we're doing it for. and so if we keep that in mind we'll enjoy the 2021 fourth of july. >> reporter: we need to also point out there are very many other people who think california needs to get its economy back in full gear, the tourism business, for example, needs to get going again here in santa monica, and they're not that concerned about the mask wearing. they really want to see the economy hum again. reporting from santa monica, i'm paul vercammen. now back to you. >> thanks, paul, for that. u.s. president donald trump

plans to hold a rally this saturday in new hampshire. it will be at the portsmouth international airport. some of the attendees will be indoors. they'll be asked but not required to wear masks. new hampshire is one of the few states where coronavirus cases are actually dropping. but just like with the tulsa rally last month attendees are once again required to agree to a liability waiver when signing up for tickets through a campaign website. that's despite the president once again downplaying the severity of the virus over the holiday weekend. jeremy diamond has more on the president's latest misleading statement. >> reporter: president trump this weekend claiming that 99% of coronavirus cases are totally harmless. that claim not only evidence-free but defying reality. and it also goes against what every public health expert in the united states is trying to do right now, which is to get the american public to take this virus and the surge in cases that we are seeing across the country much more seriously. now, while the world health organization has estimated that

globally the mortality rate of this virus is less than 1%, they also estimate that about 20% of people diagnosed diagnosed with the virus require oxygen or hospitalization. certainly not harmless cases. and of course we know that this virus is extremely contagious. now, dr. stephen han, a top member of the coronavirus task force who's also the fda commissioner, he was pressed about president trump's claim by our colleague dana bash. listen to how he responded. >> so i'm not going to get into who's right and who's wrong. what i'm going to say, dana, is what i've said before, which is that it's a serious problem that we have, we've seen this surge in cases, we must do something to stem the tide, and we have this in our power to do it by following the guidance from the white house task force and the cdc. >> reporter: as you can see there, dr. hahn not wanting to directly contradict president trump but at the same time making clear that this is a very serious situation. and that is the message that we have been hearing from public health experts over the last week who have been encouraging americans to take the social

distancing, the mats k wearing, all of these steps to try and flatten this newly rising curve. president trump also falsely claimed once again there that testing is responsible for the rise in cases across the country. that is just not true and completely contradicted by the facts. several of the states that are seeing the biggest surges in fact are seeing either testing steady or declining while the percentage of people testing positive in those tests is going up, which shows that this is nt simply about an increase in testing. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> thanks, jeremy, for that. so with coronavirus cases spiking in australia's victoria state and melbourne in particular officials will be closing the border between victoria and new south wales starting on tuesday. effectively cutting victoria off from the rest of the country. 127 new cases were reported in victoria on sunday. and officials have locked down several public housing towers, not allowing residents to leave. let's discuss this more with

angus watson, joining us from sydney. certainly a lot of dramt ikt cloeshtz tz take theth plates. the. >> reporter: it's dramt ikt, robert yint. the it'sn't smyth that's the haptd for the 19 hunt waters, the bortdertn'tth cloetz the between the victory and new south wales. new south wales is previously the worst-hit state but now victoria is spiking again with 127 confirmed cases on sunday as you mentioned and double-digit rises for over a week now. australia wants to isolate that in victoria and not let it spread, robyn. okay. angus there in sydney. angus watson, thank you. beautiful sunset behind you. thanks for joining us. so you're watching "cnn newsroom." still to come, rapidly rising virus cases in the u.s. have financial analysts worried. how the recent surge has goldman sachs rethinking its growth forecasts.

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we know the coronavirus is taking a devastating toll on latin america. several countries in the region are in the global top ten of the most covid-19 cases. brazil leads all of them with more than 1.6 million total infections. but despite this sao paolo, brazil's most populous state, is letting bars, restaurants, beauty salons and barbershops open their doors on monday, with safety guidelines in place. meanwhile, mexico surpassed france's death toll over the weekend, now with more than 30,000 people dead. also reported thousands more cases just days after more parts of the country began to reopen. and the pandemic we know is also wreaking havoc on air travel. and for airlines in latin america the pain is particularly acute as the virus devastates the region. travel bans have forced several major carriers to file for bankruptcy and others may

follow. stephen apaziban takes i look at how it affects workers in the region. >> reporter: folding her uniform for the last time. like hundreds of other colombian workers in the flight industry, she lost her job because of covid-19. >> translator: it's been my whole life's dream to be a flight attendant for avenianca d now i have to say good-bye to that dream. not because i didn't do my job. but because of the coronavirus. >> reporter: the single mother and her family are moving because they can no longer afford her flat. leslie's story is not unique. across latin america businesses are scaling down as the international monetary fund predicts this pandemic will trigger the harshest economic recession in decades. airlines in particular are taking a hit as people stop traveling for work and pleasure. latin, avianca and aero mexico have filed for bankruptcy since may. normally one of the biggest hubs

in the region bogota's airport is all but closed. this vending machine used to sell snacks. it has now been reequipped to sell face masks. but there's nobody here to buy them. >> you can almost feel an eerie atmosphere walking around these halls that are now completely empty. this airport is working hard to provide increased safety measures for when the flights will finally resume. the international air transport association thinks the air industry won't recover until 2023. so the impact on jobs like leslie's could be long-standing. >> translator: both my normothe and my daughter depend on me. mine was our own only salary. we have no income. and we have to pay rent, and school fees now. >> reporter: avianca says dismissals like leeslie's case reflect operations will be reduced. traveling by air is only the only way of connecting cities and businesses.

to avoid further layoffs some workers are coming up with preventative solutions. the colombian pilots union say they have proposed a voluntary pay cut across the board as long as avianca doesn't release a single pilot in the next two years. >> translator: our proposal is simple. don't fire anyone, we supplement our own wages, and when you need pilots they already are part of the company and trained. >> reporter: while captain pinzon waits for avianca's response to the offer he and and thousands of other flight crew members are flying blind, searching for hope on the horizon. stefano pozzebon, cnn, bogota. goldman sachs is lowering its growth forecast for the u.s. economy this quarter, citing "dramatic resurgence of coronavirus cases." the bank originally estimated gdp growth to rebound by 33% by the end of september. now it thinks the economy will only grow by 25%. let's talk about all of this with john defterios.

john. >> reporter: thanks very much, robyn. yeah, in fact this is quite an alarming number. this is certainly not a set of numbers we'll probably ever see in our lifetime again, robyn. the downgrade from 33%, something i haven't seen in my 30 years of coverage, down to 25%, you'd say why is that a worry? it's because the second quarter was so awful and it fell off of the first quarter, which was a recession. this will be very dependent on the velocity of course of that second wave. it will impact all the different numbers that have been calculated. now the scorecard for goldman sachs by the end of the year is a negative 4.6% vis-a-vis a negative 4.2%. that again is about a 10% shift alone. and then the unemployment rate if you take a look at the expectations for goldman sachs, is to come down to 9%. by the way, that's more positive than what we see other banks or even the federal reserve worried about at this stage. we're hovering at 11.1%. but if that second wave, again,

is very strong, robyn, we could remain in the unemployment range of better than double digits, above 10% by the close of the year, as companies start to scale down for the new demand that we see, which is going to be lower than we saw in 2019 obviously. >> yeah, still such uncertain times. let's just switch from the u.s. to india. we've seen a real huge surge in cases in india. it's a country with high poverty rates. what does that mean for the country? >> well, you know, we found out just in the last couple of hours here that india moved to the number 3 slot in terms of the overall cases, something they'd never wanted to see of course. u.s. number one, brazil number two, and india number three. this will have a profound impact. if you take a look at the projections just a month ago, we were looking at a positive 2%. now we're looking at a negative 4 1/2% for india. this would be the first time the country, which is a huge emerging market of 1.3 billion people, would be in recession since 1979. so this is alarming for prime

minister narendra modi, who back in -- a couple of years ago was growing 8% to 9%. that was his pride, going into the elections. that's no longer the case now. we see trade at the major ports dropping by 20% in the latest quarter and the chairman of the ratings agency moody's was suggesting you cannot grow unless you remove the fear factor. people don't want to go back to their factories right now because they're is uncertain about the situation right now as the cases spike above 25,000 per day over the weekend, robyn. >> okay. john defterios, thanks so much. live there in abu dhabi. you're watching cnn. still to come, cuba is sending medical personnel to help other countries battle the coronavirus. but the trump administration is calling it exploitation. we'll explain why. when we return. hey, can i... hold on one second... sure. okay... okay! safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out.

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so major league baseball games scheduled to start later on this month even as the number of players who test positive increases. sunday the chicago white sox announced two players have the

virus. both have been asymptomatic and are now in quarantine. on saturday four atlanta braves players have been infected. one of those is freddie freeman, the 30-year-old first baseman. his wife is warning people how dangerous coronavirus can be. she wrote on instagram. he's had body aches, headaches, chills and a high fever since thursday. he's someone who never gets sick. this virus has hit him like a ton of bricks. unlike many latin american countries, couba is crushing th coronavirus curse. the island nation was sending health care workers to help countries devastated by the virus. >> reporter: cuban health care workers make ready to go fight on the frontlines of the

coronavirus outbreak. these doctors and nurses won't be treating patients in couba. here they are traveling to countries where the pandemic rages out of control or lack health care resources. the second international mission. we fought ebola in west fruk, he tells me. that was a high risk situation. you never get used to it, but you become experienced. i feel i'm prepared. cuba has now sent doctors and nurses to fight coronavirus in 30 countries. in all likelihood, cuban doctors have battled more than anyone else. the first cuban medical brigade to confront the coronavirus received a standing ovation at the havana airport when they for italy and two months later received a hero's welcome when

they came home. and they are being cheered on as they drive through the streets of havana and headed to an isolation center where they will spend the next two weeks in quarantine to make sure they do not bring the virus back home with them. fidel castro first starting sending medical assistance to show solidarity to other nations is and earn positive headlines for his revolution. he named the international medical brigades for henry reeves, an american general on the cuban side in the war for independence from spain. but it's the u.s. government cuba's old cold war foe, that is urging other countries to refuse cuba's help. according to the trump administration, these doctors aren't heroes. they are victims. >> up to 50,000 cuban doctors have been forced by the castro

regime into human trafficking situations in 60 countries around the globe. they are the number one source of income. >> reporter: the u.s. says the cuban health professionals are not given their full salaries. the host countries pay the fwoft for their services and they are forced to work in hazardous conditions. accusations of mistreatment angrily rejected by the doctors and nurses we spoke to. the majority of medical professionals choose to step forward. we are not forced or obligated to do our work. not inside the country or outside the country. it's part of our preparation. cuba says these grit bri gads are an example of medical solidarity. the u.s. claims they are a business to keep communist leaders in power. cold war grievances will have to wait for another day as this cuban doctor head to the airport to combat an outbreak that does

not recognize borders or political differences. cnn, havana. >> thanks to patrick. thank you for all your company. let's help our medical workers by wearing a mask and social s distan distancing. the news continuing. you're watching cnn. because the tempur-breeze° transfers heat away from your body. so you feel cool... night after night. during the tempur-pedic summer of sleep, save $500 on all tempur-breeze mattresses.

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