The incidence of COVID-19 in the United States has doubled in the past three weeks
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About 23 thousand cases of coronavirus infection are registered in the United States every day.
In the past three weeks alone, the number of cases of coronavirus infection in the United States has more than doubled. The newspaper told about it on Tuesday, July 13 The Wall Street Journal.
The publication emphasizes that now, according to official estimates, an average of 23 thousand new cases of infection are registered in the country every day, while three weeks ago the data on this indicator did not exceed an average of 11.3 thousand cases per day.
The greatest number of infections is observed in states where vaccination of the population is taking place more slowly than in the rest. In addition, the growth was provoked by the spread of the Delta coronavirus strain in the country.
“At the same time, the overall statistics of the incidence remains at rather low rates compared to the data for the past winter, when the daily number of new infections in the United States exceeded 240 thousand,” the newspaper writes.
According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 33.8 million cases of coronavirus infection have been identified in the United States, over 607.5 thousand people have died. The country ranks first in the world for both indicators.
Recall that two residents of the Transcarpathian region, who came from Russia, suspect strain Delta.
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