Starting around 6:30 a.m., a procession of roughly 50 National Guard members, 50 NYPD officers, firefighters and other first responders weaved their way up from E. 26th St. and Lexington Ave. in Kips Bay to the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave.
Members of the New York National Guard who had been in Washington D.C. to provide security for the Capitol in the wake of January's riot are returning home.
It s Tuesday, January 26. More than 732,600 Arizonans have contracted COVID-19 and more than 12,440 have died as a result. Here s what happened in the last week:
Arizona is averaging 6,700 cases of COVID-19 each day. The number of new cases each day is still decreasing slightly, but not as quickly as last week. Experts describe the situation as more of a plateau than a sustained decrease. The number of people being infected with COVID-19 still remains much worse than over the summer. An average of 3,844 people were infected each day at the peak of that surge.
Arizona led the country for the number of COVID-19 cases by population in the last week. The state averaged 95.6 cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. The next worst state, South Carolina, averaged 83.6 cases per 100,000 people. Oregon did the best in the continental United States, with an average of 16.8 cases per 100,000 people.
Washington, DC, and states across the country are heightening security and preparing reinforcements this week ahead of potential armed protests from Saturday up to at least Inauguration Day on Wednesday.