The US exceeds 114,000 deaths and 2 million infections COVID-19

The united states reached this Friday the figure of 114,613 dead and 2,043,656 confirmed cases of the COVID-19, in accordance with the separate count of the Johns Hopkins University.

This balance of 20.00 local time (00.00 GMT on Saturday) is of 839 new deaths and has 21,666 infections more than the Thursday.

The state of New York is maintained as the area of the U.S. more punished since the beginning of the pandemic with 382,000 confirmed cases and 24,495 deceased. Only in New York city have died 17,193 people, the same as yesterday because this Friday there was no new death.

At the beginning of the pandemic, New York became the epicenter and in mid-April reached a record 10,000 cases per day; but, in the last few weeks, has managed to slow the advance of the virus with measures of isolation and, this Friday, only registered 822 new infections.

In terms of number of cases, New York will continue to the neighboring state of New Jersey with 166,000 cases and 12,489 deceased; and now also California, which has become one of the new focuses of the pandemic with 133,000 cases and 4,697 deaths, according to the latest data.

In addition, several states that had just suffered the impact of the pandemic are now experiencing high rates of infections.

In particular, in the last week the numbers of new cases have returned to fire at more than one-third of the 50 u.s. states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, North Carolina, and South Dakota from the North and the South, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington.

For example, Texas and Florida, two of the most populous states in the country, this week reported record numbers.

Texas, which avoided the contagion, at the beginning of the pandemic, and was one of the first states to reopen its economy, had more than 2,000 new infections in both the Wednesday as the Thursday, which is the highest figure so far.

In total, Texas have registered 83,680 infections and 1,939 deaths; while the areas where it is spreading the virus more quickly are the counties that include the cities of Houston and Dallas with 15,864 and 13,257 cases, respectively.

Meanwhile, Florida recorded more than a thousand new cases on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, this day last in which it reached the record figure of 1,689 that was surpassed this Friday with 1,902 new infections.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 70,971 people have been infected in Florida, and 2,877 have lost their lives.

Medical experts have attributed many of these increases to the reopening of the economy of some states to coincide with Memorial Day, which traditionally starts the summer season in the U.S.

The current provisional balance of the deceased -114,613 – has already passed the lowest point of the initial estimates of the White House, which screened in the best of cases, between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths due to the pandemic.

The us president, Donald Trump, lowered the estimates and was confident that the final figure would be between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although in their recent calculations predicted already up to 110,000 dead, a number that has also been exceeded.

For its part, this Friday, the Centers for disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English) updated their forecast and now estimate that between 124,000 and 140,000 people would die by the virus before the 4th of July.

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