CORONAVIRUS LATEST: — France will require face masks in offices starting next month. — U.S. reports more than 1,300 new deaths in a single day. — Global COVID-19 cases surpass 22 million.
There were 44,813 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the United States on Tuesday, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
An additional 1,324 coronavirus-related deaths were also recorded Tuesday -- a nearly threefold increase from the previous day but still under the record 2,666 new deaths that were reported on April 17. Steve Smith, a volunteer from the Medical Reserve Corps of Kansas City checks in people with appointments at a mobile testing site for the coronavirus, at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty, Mo., on Aug. 17, 2020.A total of 5,482,602 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and at least 171,823 of them have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases include people from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and other U.S.
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