The balance sheet starts up sadly. After two days of decline, the United States recorded a dark record Tuesday with more than 2,200 additional deaths from the Covid-19 in 24 hours, the heaviest daily death toll recorded by a country, according to the count of Johns University - Hopkins.
While the number of deaths on a day had dropped to around 1,500 on Sunday and Monday, the United States lamented 2,228 deaths between 8:30 p.m. local Tuesday and the day before at the same time, according to university figures continuously updated . This brings the American death toll to 25,757 dead in total.
The previous record for the number of deaths on a day (2,108) was recorded Friday in the United States.
Most mourning country in the world
The United States became the most mourning country in the world this weekend, ahead of Italy (more than 21,000 dead), Spain (more than 18,000) and France (more than 15,700), which however, have much smaller populations.
America also has since the end of March the highest number of officially declared cases, and crossed Monday the 600,000 mark of infected infections. About 3 million tests have been carried out in the country.
The epicenter of the American epidemic is still located in New York, where a slowdown is confirmed, however, with hospital admissions in decline.
"We can see rays of light"
"Through the darkness, we can see rays of light," President Donald Trump said Tuesday during his daily press conference on the pandemic.
Predictions of the number of deaths in the United States, according to the most cited model (IHME), which takes into account the way the epidemic has evolved in China and Europe, are for the first wave around 70,000 deaths .
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