The United States has recorded 63,643 additional cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, according to data Friday evening at 8:30 p.m. local from Johns Hopkins University, which refers. The day before, the country had recorded a new record in the number of infections with Covid-19 with more than 65,500 additional cases in one day. Some 774 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States in the past 24 hours, and the epidemic has claimed 133,969 lives in total in the country, which is by far the most mourning in the world.
Since the start of the pandemic, more than 3.18 million cases of coronavirus have been detected in the United States, but the number of people who contracted the disease is probably much higher, due to the difficulties of access to tests that existed in the country in March and April. Experts fear that the death curve will quickly follow the same path as that of new infections. In recent days, Texas and Florida have each reported their record number of deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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The US government's top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has been sounding the alarm for several days in interviews. Parts of the country, like New York, "have taken control , " he told FiveThirtyEight on Thursday. "But as a country, when we compare ourselves to other countries, I don't think you can say that we did well. This is simply not the case, " he insisted.
Donald Trump, who continues to play down the outbreak of new Covid-19 cases in the country, traveled to Miami, Florida on Friday, one of the current hotbeds of the Covid-19 epidemic, but the coronavirus was not on the agenda for his travels, particularly centered on military command for South America.