US reports more than 25 thousand COVID-19 cases per day
More than 25 thousand people have tested positive for coronavirus in the United States over the past day, with a death toll exceeding 1.6 thousand.
According to Johns Hopkins University, 25,050 new cases were registered in the United States in the last 24 hours, while the figure was 27,368 the previous day. The pandemic claimed lives of 1,632 over the past day.
According to the University, more than 1,443,397 people have so far contracted coronavirus in the United States, while the total death toll is 87,568.
On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia in China’s Wuhan, and the causative agent is a new type of coronavirus officially named COVID-19.
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus a pandemic.