The United States crossed the barrier of 700,000 identified cases of coronavirus on Friday, according to the real-time count of Johns Hopkins University which refers. The country now has 700,282 cases of Covid-19 contamination and 36,773 dead, according to the university.
According to this source, consulted at 8:30 p.m. (2:30 a.m. in France on Friday), the country experienced 3,856 additional deaths in 24 hours, but this figure includes cases of deaths "probably linked" to Covid-19, but which had not was initially counted as such. This week, New York City announced that it would add 3,778 “probable” deaths from Covid-19 to its balance sheet.
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According to the report at 22 hours (French time) of the American Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), a government agency, the country counted 33,049 dead, including 4,226 probable. A figure slightly lower than that given by Johns Hopkins University.
The United States is the most bereaved country in the world, ahead of Italy (with 22,745 dead), Spain (19,478) and France (18,681).