The number of detected cases of coronavirus infection in the USA has increased by 40.3 thousand over the past 24 hours, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, which summarizes the data of federal and local authorities, as well as media and other public sources
In the past 24 hours, health officials in the United States have reported 40,340 new infections and 669 deaths, according to the university.
The total number of people infected with the coronavirus in the United States since the start of the epidemic has reached nearly 29 million, and 525,000 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 have died.