Texas is the first US state with 1 million cases of covid

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(CNN) -

Texas is now the first US state to record 1 million coronavirus cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The Lone Star State has so far identified 1,010,364 cases of Covid-19 since the pandemic began.

At least 19,337 people have died there, according to the university.

• Biden wants masks to be mandatory in all 50 states.

  In these they are not required

California has the second highest number of COVID-19 cases in the United States, with 989,432.

If Texas, which has a population of around 29 million people, were a country, it would now rank 10th in the world in terms of total identified COVID-19 cases.

• The US exceeded 10 million cases of covid-19 and infections are increasing in 43 states

These are the countries that have identified more than 1 million cases of covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins:

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