The new coronavirus has caused an additional 819 deaths in 24 hours in the United States, according to a count at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday from Johns Hopkins University, which references. The total number of Covid-19 deaths in the country is 111,750, and nearly two million cases have been identified, according to university figures continuously updated.
The United States is, in absolute terms, by far the country most affected by the pandemic, in terms of both the number of deaths and the number of cases diagnosed. Some 518,000 people are declared cured there.
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For the past two weeks, daily reports have mostly fallen below 1,000 dead, after reaching a high of more than 3,000 dead in 24 hours in mid-April. But the country continues to register around 20,000 new cases of coronavirus every day, and is struggling to come down from this plateau.
Less urbanized regions, the Midwest, the South and part of the West, have partly taken over, in terms of new infections, from the five Northeast States where the epidemic was previously the most intense, and where half of the American deaths in Covid-19 have been recorded (from New Jersey to Massachusetts, with New York in the middle).
According to an average of eleven epidemiological models produced by researchers from the University of Massachusetts, the number of deaths from the Covid-19 should approach 130,000 deaths in the country by July 4, the day of the American national holiday.
