WASHINGTON, July 11 — The United States recorded 63,643 new coronavirus cases yesterday, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University. As of 8:30pm (0030 GMT Saturday), 774 people died of Covid-19 in the country in the past 24 hours, the Baltimore-based university said. The...
Overheated, a healthcare worker takes a break as people wait in their vehicles in long lines for Covid-19 testing in Houston, Texas July 7, 2020. — Reuters pic
As of 8:30pm , 774 people died of Covid-19 in the country in the past 24 hours, the Baltimore-based university said. Thursday saw a record surge in cases, with 65,551 new infections. Experts fear there will soon be a spike in deaths.“As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great,” top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci told political analysis website FiveThirtyEight on Thursday.
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