The New York Times - USA (2020-07-26)

10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020

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Hurricane Hanna will
continue to bring heavy
rain to the lower Rio
Grande River Valley and
parts of northeastern
Mexico on Sunday. Hanna
will continue to lose
intensity as it moves
inland. Given the heavy
rain and the terrain, flash
flooding and mudslides are
expected. Hanna will
dissipate by Monday.

Highlight: Hanna Impacting Southern Texas

Monterrey

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Houston New Orleans

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Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature

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Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)

Yesterday............... 88%

Est. normal............. 91%

Precipitation (in inches)

Yesterday............... 0.

Record.................... 1.

For the last 30 days

Actual..................... 6.

Normal.................... 4.

For the last 365 days

Actual................... 42.

Normal.................. 49.

LAST 30 DAYS

Air pressure Humidity

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High........... 30.14 8 a.m.

Low............ 30.10 4 a.m.

High............. 90% 2 a.m.

Low................ 58% noon

An index of fuel consumption that tracks how

far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65

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trends compare with those of the last 30 years.

Yesterday................................................................... 15

So far this month...................................................... 363

So far this season (since January 1)........................ 677

Normal to date for the season................................. 567

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United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow

N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
94/ 76 PC 96/ 77 S
Bridgeport 80/ 73 0 92/ 76 PC 93/ 78 S
Caldwell 83/ 76 0 95/ 73 PC 96/ 78 S
Danbury 81/ 68 0 90/ 68 PC 93/ 72 S
Islip 78/ 74 0 91/ 73 PC 93/ 77 S
Newark 80/ 73 0 95/ 74 PC 97/ 78 S
Trenton 80/ 71 0.03 93/ 72 PC 96/ 75 S
White Plains 79/ 70 0 91/ 72 PC 94/ 74 S

Albany 87/ 65 0 91/ 69 PC 94/ 72 PC
Albuquerque 81/ 64 0.02 84/ 65 T 84/ 65 T
Anchorage 64/ 54 0.06 65/ 55 C 66/ 55 PC
Atlanta 89/ 73 0 90/ 73 T 92/ 73 C
Atlantic City 83/ 76 0 89/ 78 PC 91/ 80 S
Austin 89/ 74 0 88/ 73 T 89/ 75 T
Baltimore 91/ 73 0 97/ 75 PC 98/ 76 S
Baton Rouge 83/ 73 Tr 82/ 71 T 81/ 73 T
Birmingham 90/ 73 0 90/ 73 T 90/ 72 T
Boise 90/ 57 0 95/ 63 S 98/ 70 PC
Boston 83/ 72 0 94/ 76 PC 95/ 76 S
Buffalo 87/ 69 0 86/ 74 PC 85/ 67 W
Burlington 89/ 67 0 92/ 72 PC 89/ 73 PC
Casper 92/ 52 0 87/ 51 PC 89/ 54 S
Charlotte 90/ 70 0 92/ 70 T 93/ 72 T
Chattanooga 91/ 73 Tr 91/ 74 T 91/ 74 T
Chicago 91/ 74 0 93/ 75 PC 83/ 66 T
Cincinnati 90/ 68 0 90/ 71 C 90/ 68 PC
Cleveland 84/ 64 0 90/ 73 S 88/ 67 PC
Colorado Springs 86/ 61 0 76/ 58 T 75/ 57 T
Columbus 91/ 69 0 92/ 73 PC 90/ 68 PC
Concord, N.H. 89/ 63 0 91/ 71 PC 94/ 72 PC
Dallas-Ft. Worth 93/ 76 0 91/ 76 T 91/ 77 PC
Denver 86/ 63 0 80/ 59 C 82/ 61 PC
Des Moines 93/ 76 0 91/ 69 T 84/ 62 C
Detroit 86/ 67 0 91/ 75 C 85/ 64 T
El Paso 88/ 72 0 90/ 72 PC 94/ 73 PC
Fargo 90/ 66 1.61 82/ 60 PC 80/ 58 PC
Hartford 92/ 68 0 95/ 70 PC 98/ 74 PC
Honolulu 88/ 77 0.03 87/ 77 Sh 87/ 76 R
Houston 85/ 78 0.27 84/ 76 T 86/ 75 C
Indianapolis 86/ 68 0 90/ 73 PC 86/ 67 T
Jackson 89/ 73 0 90/ 73 PC 87/ 72 C
Jacksonville 89/ 72 0 88/ 72 T 91/ 73 T
Kansas City 92/ 75 0 92/ 72 S 81/ 64 T
Key West 87/ 79 0.09 89/ 81 PC 89/ 83 PC
Las Vegas 103/ 81 0 104/ 84 S 105/ 84 PC
Lexington 89/ 69 0 88/ 69 PC 88/ 67 PC

Little Rock 90/ 73 0 91/ 73 S 90/ 73 S

Los Angeles 80/ 61 0 82/ 62 PC 81/ 61 PC

Louisville 92/ 73 0 91/ 75 PC 91/ 73 PC

Memphis 91/ 76 0 91/ 76 S 91/ 75 T

Miami 87/ 78 0.71 90/ 80 T 91/ 79 PC

Milwaukee 88/ 75 0 92/ 73 C 83/ 67 T

Mpls.-St. Paul 89/ 75 0 83/ 64 T 81/ 64 S

Nashville 91/ 73 0 91/ 72 T 91/ 73 T

New Orleans 86/ 76 0.01 85/ 78 T 81/ 75 T

Norfolk 90/ 77 0.02 98/ 80 PC 97/ 78 S

Oklahoma City 91/ 72 0 90/ 73 S 88/ 69 T

Omaha 95/ 78 0 90/ 69 T 86/ 64 PC

Orlando 87/ 74 0 88/ 72 T 89/ 73 T

Philadelphia 90/ 74 0 94/ 76 PC 97/ 78 S

Phoenix 104/ 85 0 108/ 88 PC 108/ 90 PC

Pittsburgh 88/ 67 0 90/ 71 S 88/ 70 PC

Portland, Me. 87/ 70 0 91/ 76 PC 90/ 74 PC

Portland, Ore. 82/ 59 0 99/ 66 S 100/ 64 PC

Providence 88/ 72 0 93/ 75 PC 95/ 76 PC

Raleigh 92/ 73 0 94/ 74 PC 95/ 75 S

Reno 94/ 63 0 95/ 65 PC 90/ 60 S

Richmond 91/ 74 0 97/ 76 PC 98/ 77 S

Rochester 87/ 64 0 89/ 73 PC 91/ 66 PC

Sacramento 94/ 60 0 97/ 61 S 95/ 58 S

Salt Lake City 94/ 67 0 96/ 69 S 96/ 69 S

San Antonio 88/ 75 0 89/ 74 T 89/ 74 T

San Diego 75/ 66 0 75/ 66 PC 74/ 65 PC

San Francisco 74/ 56 0 73/ 56 PC 72/ 56 PC

San Jose 81/ 59 0 82/ 60 PC 80/ 58 PC

San Juan 90/ 78 0.06 89/ 78 W 89/ 80 T

Seattle 77/ 58 0 85/ 62 S 92/ 61 S

Sioux Falls 92/ 75 0.23 81/ 61 T 83/ 62 S

Spokane 82/ 57 0 90/ 62 S 96/ 65 S

St. Louis 93/ 77 0 94/ 78 PC 86/ 68 T

St. Thomas 90/ 81 0.03 90/ 80 PC 89/ 81 T

Syracuse 88/ 67 0 90/ 71 C 92/ 70 PC

Tampa 93/ 76 0 90/ 77 T 87/ 78 T

Toledo 89/ 67 0 93/ 75 PC 88/ 63 T

Tucson 95/ 74 0 100/ 78 C 99/ 81 C

Tulsa 91/ 75 0 94/ 74 S 88/ 71 T

Virginia Beach 87/ 76 0.01 93/ 78 S 95/ 79 S

Washington 91/ 76 0 95/ 77 PC 97/ 79 S

Wichita 94/ 75 0 95/ 75 S 81/ 65 T

Wilmington, Del. 88/ 72 0 93/ 73 PC 95/ 75 S

Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Algiers 95/ 66 0 98/ 70 PC 96/ 71 PC

Cairo 95/ 77 0 96/ 73 S 97/ 76 S

Cape Town 64/ 47 0 62/ 41 PC 66/ 48 S

Dakar 86/ 81 0.02 88/ 79 C 87/ 79 PC

Johannesburg 60/ 38 0 64/ 37 S 62/ 42 S

Nairobi 77/ 55 0 76/ 51 S 74/ 55 S

Tunis 93/ 75 0 95/ 71 S 96/ 72 S

Baghdad 117/ 92 0 122/ 88 PC 124/ 90 PC

Bangkok 91/ 79 0.47 91/ 81 T 92/ 79 T

Beijing 97/ 77 0 82/ 70 C 83/ 70 PC

Damascus 100/ 66 0 106/ 74 PC 109/ 75 PC

Hong Kong 94/ 83 0 94/ 83 PC 92/ 83 T

Jakarta 91/ 75 0 90/ 74 PC 91/ 74 PC

Jerusalem 89/ 69 0 90/ 70 S 90/ 72 S

Karachi 96/ 86 0 95/ 81 T 92/ 84 T

Manila 91/ 79 0.09 93/ 79 T 92/ 80 T

Mumbai 90/ 81 0.13 87/ 78 T 86/ 80 T

South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow

North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow

New Delhi 97/ 78 0.08 94/ 82 PC 97/ 83 T

Riyadh 108/ 87 0 110/ 86 PC 113/ 88 PC

Seoul 84/ 71 0.19 86/ 71 PC 78/ 71 R

Shanghai 91/ 74 0 88/ 78 C 87/ 78 T

Singapore 87/ 77 0.08 85/ 79 Sh 86/ 79 Sh

Sydney 65/ 49 0.61 61/ 56 R 61/ 54 R

Taipei City 91/ 82 0.16 94/ 80 C 97/ 80 T

Tehran 104/ 84 0 103/ 83 PC 104/ 82 PC

Tokyo 81/ 75 0.62 83/ 77 W 84/ 74 PC

Amsterdam 70/ 61 0.54 68/ 60 T 70/ 62 C

Athens 99/ 79 0 92/ 74 S 93/ 76 S

Berlin 79/ 57 0 77/ 56 R 80/ 62 PC

Brussels 75/ 57 0.03 72/ 58 C 76/ 62 PC

Budapest 75/ 63 0.56 81/ 64 PC 83/ 62 S

Copenhagen 68/ 50 0 68/ 57 R 68/ 58 C

Dublin 63/ 57 0.02 65/ 51 PC 64/ 48 R

Edinburgh 67/ 57 0.31 64/ 51 PC 62/ 50 C

Frankfurt 82/ 63 0 81/ 56 T 84/ 65 PC

Geneva 84/ 57 0 82/ 60 PC 88/ 66 S

Helsinki 67/ 55 0.53 71/ 55 PC 74/ 58 C

Istanbul 84/ 72 0 86/ 73 S 88/ 73 S

Kiev 73/ 60 0.15 82/ 64 T 86/ 63 PC

Lisbon 84/ 66 0 87/ 65 S 84/ 65 S

London 72/ 63 0.12 71/ 59 PC 68/ 56 C

Madrid 100/ 70 0 103/ 69 S 105/ 73 S

Moscow 70/ 48 0 73/ 58 C 76/ 60 Sh

Nice 81/ 72 0 82/ 72 PC 84/ 73 S

Oslo 68/ 48 0.02 62/ 56 R 66/ 53 C

Paris 80/ 61 0.01 79/ 61 PC 86/ 63 S

Prague 81/ 57 0 76/ 57 T 81/ 61 PC

Rome 85/ 72 0 86/ 64 S 88/ 66 S

St. Petersburg 64/ 54 0.24 71/ 53 S 77/ 58 PC

Stockholm 70/ 45 0 70/ 58 PC 73/ 55 C

Vienna 79/ 63 0.08 83/ 64 PC 84/ 64 S

Warsaw 79/ 57 0 85/ 60 PC 78/ 58 T

Acapulco 83/ 76 0 88/ 77 T 88/ 78 T

Bermuda 86/ 79 0 86/ 80 PC 86/ 79 PC

Edmonton 57/ 46 Tr 74/ 52 S 82/ 53 S

Guadalajara 71/ 60 0 79/ 63 T 77/ 60 T

Havana 86/ 73 0 88/ 74 T 91/ 73 T

Kingston 90/ 81 0.05 92/ 78 T 91/ 79 T

Martinique 88/ 82 0 89/ 75 PC 88/ 78 Sh

Mexico City 68/ 58 0 76/ 55 T 75/ 56 T

Monterrey 88/ 81 0.13 78/ 72 T 77/ 71 T

Montreal 82/ 66 0 89/ 74 T 85/ 71 T

Nassau 82/ 73 0.38 89/ 76 PC 89/ 78 PC

Panama City 82/ 73 0.07 86/ 73 T 86/ 75 T

Quebec City 79/ 61 0 80/ 68 R 83/ 68 T

Santo Domingo 90/ 77 0.02 93/ 74 T 91/ 75 T

Toronto 82/ 66 0 91/ 73 PC 86/ 65 T

Vancouver 63/ 55 0 78/ 62 S 79/ 60 PC

Winnipeg 81/ 70 0.03 77/ 60 W 77/ 58 PC

Buenos Aires 54/ 39 0 60/ 44 PC 55/ 40 C

Caracas 88/ 75 0.19 88/ 74 T 87/ 74 T

Lima 62/ 53 0 64/ 58 PC 64/ 58 PC

Quito 66/ 43 0 66/ 49 C 68/ 47 PC

Recife 82/ 73 0.01 83/ 71 PC 83/ 73 PC

Rio de Janeiro 82/ 70 0 77/ 69 C 80/ 70 S

Santiago 45/ 32 0 57/ 40 C 59/ 34 PC

From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20

nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York

Harbor.

Wind will be from the west at 5-10 knots, becoming 10-

knots in the afternoon. Waves will be 1-2 feet on New York

Harbor and Long Island Sound, and 2-3 feet on the ocean.

Visibility generally unrestricted.

Atlantic City .................. 12:08 a.m. ............ 12:56 p.m.

Barnegat Inlet ............... 12:29 a.m. .............. 1:13 p.m.

The Battery ..................... 1:02 a.m. .............. 1:51 p.m.

Beach Haven .................. 1:56 a.m. .............. 2:41 p.m.

Bridgeport ...................... 4:13 a.m. .............. 4:45 p.m.

City Island ....................... 3:59 a.m. .............. 4:34 p.m.

Fire Island Lt. .................. 1:24 a.m. .............. 2:09 p.m.

Montauk Point ................ 1:49 a.m. .............. 2:30 p.m.

Northport ....................... 4:15 a.m. .............. 4:46 p.m.

Port Washington ............. 4:06 a.m. .............. 4:40 p.m.

Sandy Hook .................. 12:38 a.m. .............. 1:23 p.m.

Shinnecock Inlet ........... 12:24 a.m. .............. 1:00 p.m.

Stamford ........................ 4:14 a.m. .............. 4:45 p.m.

Tarrytown ....................... 2:51 a.m. .............. 3:40 p.m.

Willets Point .................... 4:01 a.m. .............. 4:36 p.m.

High Tides

New York City 88/ 72 0

Metropolitan Forecast

TODAY ......................................Partly sunny

High 94. High pressure strengthening

over the Northeast will lead to a dry day.

Expect another unseasonably hot and

humid day, with a partly sunny sky. Tem-

peratures will feel close to 100.

TONIGHT ................Mostly clear and humid

Low 76. Continued high pressure over the

Northeast will keep conditions dry and

calm overnight. After a hot evening, it will

feel warm and quite humid, with a mainly

clear sky. Wind will be light.

TOMORROW ....................................Very hot

High 96. Elevated humidity, with heat

building to dangerous levels by the after-

noon under a sunny sky. Temperatures

will challenge the record high for the

date, use caution when outdoors.

TUESDAY ...................Heavy thunderstorms

A front moving through the region will

bring showers and heavy thunderstorms.

Cooler, but still rather hot, with sunshine

and clouds.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY .................................Less humid

Less humid conditions should set in by

Wednesday afternoon under a partly

sunny sky. High 88. Lower humidity will

continue Thursday, with plenty of sun-

shine. High 86.

Hanna will bring very heavy rainfall and

gusty winds to the southern Texas region.

Flooding will be the primary concern.

A cold front will move through the

northern Plains causing several showers

and thunderstorms, some producing

heavy rain and gusty winds from Nebras-

ka into Iowa. Scattered afternoon thun-

derstorms will develop in the Southeast

from Florida to Tennessee.

A few thunderstorms will develop

across parts of the Southwest, especially

in the northwestern part of New Mexico.

Scattered thunderstorms will also move

through portions of northern Maine. Most

of the West will be dry with plenty of

sunshine.

High pressure will strengthen over the

Northeast leading to a dry day at the

beaches. The heat and humidity will

increase under a partly to mostly sunny

sky. Temperatures will begin to build

mainly in the upper 80s north to the

middle 90s south.

BANGKOK — Vietnam, which
had gone 100 days without report-
ing a case of local transmission of
the coronavirus, said on Saturday
that a 57-year-old grandfather in
the central city of Danang had
tested positive. How he got the ill-
ness remains a mystery.
To prevent a wider outbreak,
the Health Ministry said it was
conducting “extensive screening
and testing in all at-risk areas in
Danang.” Officials said they had
tested and quarantined people
who had been in close contact with
the patient and were tracing oth-
ers. So far, no other positive cases
have surfaced.
The case of the Danang grand-
father is yet another sign of how
difficult it is to contain the virus
even when a country has followed
the best practices. The patient has
no record of recent travel and ap-
pears to be a homebody who
spends most of his time looking af-
ter his grandchildren.

Health officials, noting that

mask use in Vietnam had become

lax, urged members of the public

to resume wearing them, espe-

cially in crowded places and on

public transportation.

Vietnam, one of the world’s few

remaining communist states, has

been among the most successful

in the world in containing the vi-

rus. Soon after the illness

emerged in China, Vietnam’s

northern neighbor, the govern-

ment quickly closed international

borders, called for widespread use

of masks and established strict

quarantine and aggressive con-

tact-tracing procedures.

Most foreigners are still barred

from traveling to Vietnam, and re-

turning citizens are required to go

into quarantine, which is where all

of Vietnam’s other recent cases

have been found.

The public has embraced the

campaign and rallied around one

famous case, that of the Scottish

pilot Stephen Cameron, 43, who

came so close to death that doc-

tors in Ho Chi Minh City contem-

plated giving him a double-lung

transplant. He spent more than

two months on life support in a

medically induced coma but re-

covered and flew home two weeks

ago.

As of Saturday, Vietnam had re-

ported 416 cases and no deaths. Its

last known case of local transmis-

sion was in mid-April. The govern-

ment has been considering re-

suming international flights to

countries where the virus has

been contained.

The discovery of the new case in

Danang was a shock. Many people

reportedly canceled travel plans

in central Vietnam, a popular des-

tination for domestic and foreign

travelers.

The 57-year-old man, known as

Patient 416, first showed signs of a

cough and fever on July 17 and

was admitted to a hospital three

days later. He was initially diag-

nosed with pneumonia. An X-ray

showed lung lesions and, after he

suffered respiratory failure, he

was put on a ventilator.

His tests for Covid-19 were pos-

itive from the outset, but it was not

until Saturday, when the fourth

test result came back, that the

government officially declared

that he had Covid-19, the disease

caused by the coronavirus.

The country’s acting health

minister, Nguyen Thanh Long,

confirmed the finding at a meet-

ing on Saturday of the National

Steering Committee for Covid-19.

Investigators concluded that

the patient hadn’t traveled outside

Danang, one of Vietnam’s largest

cities, and had rarely left home in

the month before falling ill.

On July 7, he took his 92-year-

old mother to a medical center for

treatment for her heart ailment

and, on July 16, visited her at the

hospital where she had been

transferred.

On July 17, he began to feel tired

and feverish but attended an en-

gagement party. The next day, he

went to a family wedding.

Health officials said that more

than 100 people with whom he had

been in contact had tested nega-

tive for the virus. About 50 of them

have been placed in isolation as a

further precaution.

Specialist teams were sent from

other parts of the country, includ-

ing from Cho Ray Hospital, where

Mr. Cameron was treated, to help

with the treatment of Patient 416,

whose condition appeared to be

deteriorating.

“This patient is suffering from

acute pneumonia with severe

symptoms and rapid progres-

sion,” according to a statement

posted on Friday by the Health

Ministry, and doctors were pursu-

ing “a maximum treatment re-

gimen.”

AN UNEXPECTED DIAGNOSIS

Grandfather Tests Positive, Breaking Vietnam’s Streak of No Local Cases

Officials in Vietnam, which has mostly contained its outbreak,

urged the public to resume wearing masks in crowded places.

LINH PHAM/GETTY IMAGES

Chau Doan contributed reporting
from Hanoi, Vietnam.

By RICHARD C. PADDOCK

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