Washington-Sana
The United States recorded yesterday for the second day in a row, nearly two thousand people died from the Corona virus within 24 hours in the highest daily toll recorded by a country in the world since the outbreak of the epidemic.
"The epidemic claimed in the United States in the last twenty-four hours the lives of 1973 infected with the virus compared to 1939 the previous day," bringing the total number of deaths to 14695, the newspaper quoted the "Johns Hopkins University", which is a reference for tracking infections and deaths caused by the virus, as saying. status.
Thus, the United States became the second largest worldwide in terms of the number of deaths caused by the virus, surpassing Spain, which has 14,555 deaths, but is still behind Italy, which recorded 17,669 deaths so far.
As for the number of people infected with the epidemic in the United States, it reached 429,252 yesterday evening, after it was confirmed during the last 24 hours that an additional 32,819 people were infected, compared to 29,609 cases the day before, so that more than a quarter of laboratory-confirmed infections worldwide were recorded in the United States alone.
New York remains the epicenter of this country, as the state has recorded 6,268 deaths to date, including 779 deaths in the last 24 hours.