U.S. Johns Hopkins University confirmed that the daily infections with the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) in the country have crossed the 180,000 threshold for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The university, which relies on data from official agencies and open sources, announced that the confirmed cases in the USA witnessed a sharp and unprecedented new record jump with 184514 new cases of infection recorded during Friday alone compared to 153,496 cases on Thursday (which was the largest daily increase, since the beginning of the pandemic.
The university confirmed that the American health authorities detected 1431 new deaths resulting from the pandemic yesterday which significantly exceeds the previous day's statistics (919 deaths.)
In general, to date, according to the latest university data, 10 million and 745,524 confirmed cases of the virus have been recorded in the USA, and 244,364 deaths, which represent the largest number of infections and deaths in the world, according to the New York Times.
As of Saturday morning, more than 10,818,600 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 244,200 have died, according to a New York Times database.
Case numbers are spiking across most of the USA, leading to dire warnings about full hospitals, exhausted health care workers, and potential lockdowns.
As conditions worsened and winter approaching, the mayors of Chicago and St. Louis imposed stricter limits on gatherings.
In Oregon and New Mexico, governors ordered residents to stay at home.
In both rural counties and major cities, infections continued rising to fearsome new levels with no end in sight.
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