Coronavirus USA | The United States breaks its record of covid-19 cases for the second consecutive day | NNDC | WORLD

The United States registered 225,594 new infections of coronavirus this Friday and broke the record of infections registered on Thursday (210,962) with the pandemic expanding throughout the country, according to the independent count of Johns Hopkins University.

In addition, there were also 2,506 new deaths compared to Thursday.

The total balance at 8:00 p.m. local time this Friday (01:00 GMT on Saturday) is 14,337,640 cases and 278,594 deaths, more than any other country in the world.

New York State remains the worst hit in the country with 34,830 deaths, followed by Texas (22,825), California (19,647), Florida (18,994) and New Jersey (17,255).

Other states with a large death toll are Illinois (13,782), Pennsylvania (11,052), Massachusetts (10,910), Michigan (10,117) or Georgia (9,725).

In terms of infections, California returns to the first position with 1,299,360, followed by Texas with 1,298,153, third is Florida with 1,039,207, Illinois is fourth with 770,088 and New York fifth with 685,364.

The provisional death toll -278,594 – far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House, which in the best of cases projected between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic.

US President Donald Trump lowered those estimates and was confident that the final figure would be between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although later he predicted up to 110,000 deaths, a number that was also exceeded.

For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, calculates that when Trump leaves power next 20 By January 400,000 people will have died and by April 1 540,000.

Source: EFE.