The United States has, for the eighth consecutive day, recorded more than 60,000 new cases of contamination with the coronavirus in the space of 24 hours, according to the count Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. (2:30 in France Wednesday, July 22) of Johns Hopkins University .
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The 68,524 new infections recorded in one day bring to more than 3.89 million the total number of positive cases in the country since the start of the pandemic, which appeared in December in China before spreading to the rest of the world.
The Covid-19 has also caused the death of 961 people in the last 24 hours, for a total of 141,883 deaths, according to the university based in Baltimore, whose reports refer. By far the most affected country in the world in absolute value, the United States, after having experienced an improvement in the late spring, have for several weeks seen the epidemic on the rise, especially in the south and west of country.
" It will surely, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better, " Donald Trump said at the White House on Tuesday during his first press conference since April on the health crisis. The American president for the first time clearly recommended the wearing of the mask " when physical distancing is not possible ". “ Whether you like masks or not, they have an impact, ” he pleaded, even going so far as to “ implore ” young people to “ avoid crowded bars ”.