Covid-19: United States Record More Than 2,100 Deaths In 24 Hours

The United States has become the first country in the world to exceed 2000 deaths from the new coronavirus in a day, with 2108 additional deaths recorded in 24 hours, according to the Johns Hopkins University count at 8:30 p.m. local Friday.

The total number of deaths recorded in the United States is 18,586, which is very close to the most bereaved country, Italy, which has 18,849 deaths, but with a population five times smaller.

The United States also crossed the barrier of half a million officially declared cases of new coronavirus on Friday.

With more than a quarter of the cases officially declared in total in the world, they threaten to become the new epicenter of the pandemic, in front of Europe which registers more than 850,000 cases, according to a Nigeria News count.

The United States records since the middle of last week more than 1000 new daily deaths, and had already recorded Tuesday and Wednesday nearly 2000 deaths in 24 hours, then also the worst daily reports in the world since the beginning of the pandemic.

The epicenter of the American epidemic is in New York, the state alone deplores more than 7,800 deaths and more than 160,000 positive cases.

Since the end of March, the United States has been the country with the most recorded cases of infections, with more than a quarter of the officially declared cases in the world.

“More than 2.1 million tests have been performed” in the country, said US Vice President Mike Pence Friday at the White House crisis cell daily press conference.

President Donald Trump regularly reiterates that this is the largest number of tests done by a country, which he says explains the number of cases identified much higher in the United States than elsewhere.

According to ourworldindata.com, this is indeed the case in absolute terms, but in proportion to their population, Italy and South Korea have performed more tests than the Americans.

Predictions of the number of deaths in the United States according to the most cited model (IHME), which takes into account how the epidemic has evolved in China and Europe, have in recent days been revised several times downwards to the first wave: from 93,000 to 82,000, then to 60,000 deaths.