The coronavirus epidemic COVID-19 continues to spread in the United States. The disease has already struck half a million Americans.
This is evidenced by the data of Johns Hopkins University, which is engaged in monitoring the situation in the country.
According to the university, the total number of infected in the United States exceeded 499 thousand. At the same time, the Worldometer portal claims that the United States has already passed the half-million mark. 28.6 thousand people who have recovered now account for 18.6 thousand deaths. At the same time, the last indicator continues to grow.
Over the past day, the number of deaths from coronavirus in the United States exceeded 2.1 thousand people. Thus, the United States broke not only its own daily record, but also a record among all countries of the world.
New York remains the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States. Only here the number of victims is about 6 thousand.
As News Front previously reported, people who died of coronavirus infection in New York began to be buried in mass graves. Footage of the burial process appeared the day before. They were made on Hart Island in Long Island Strait. Until now, local authorities have buried here the homeless and those who simply do not have relatives or the opportunity to pay for the burial.