At least 53,069 new infections in the coronavirus were registered in the United States in 24 hours, according to the counting Thursday at 8:30 pm local from Johns Hopkins University, a record level since the beginning of the pandemic, on the eve of the long week weekend of national holiday.
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This brings the total number of cases detected in the country to more than 2.7 million. 649 people have died from Covid-19 on American soil in the last 24 hours, 128,677 since the start of the global health crisis.
