On Thursday, the United States revealed a record for the number of new cases of COVID-19-infected people: 54,879, the country’s medical authorities said.
If two weeks ago it was reported about 22 thousand cases per day on average, recently the number of new infections exceeded 40 thousand daily.
Leading American infectious disease specialist, director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned earlier this week that if effective measures to curb the spread of infection are not taken, the daily increase in the number of infected people in the country can reach 100 thousand.
As of 05:00 Moscow time, in the United States, since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there were 2,735,554 infected, 128,684 people died, more than 780,000 were cured, Johns Hopkins University of America said.