(Washington) The United States has recorded in the last 24 hours 1262 New deaths related to COVID – 19, according to the count on Wednesday at 19 h 24 from Johns Hopkins University, which refers.
Posted on August 5 2020 at 19 h 52
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A figure similar to that of the day before which brings to close to 158 000 the total number of deaths recorded in the country since the start of the new coronavirus pandemic, which appeared in December in China.
The United States has also noted 53 158 new cases of infection in one day, for a total balance of 4, 82 million, according to continuously updated figures from the Baltimore-based university.
The country is by far the most affected in the world by the pandemic in absolute terms, but President Donald Trump, resolutely optimistic, said on Wednesday that the virus would “disappear”.
“There is not the slightest doubt in my mind, it will disappear,” he said during a press conference at the White House on COVID – 19.
An exercise that he brought up to date recently, almost daily, after a resurgence of the epidemic since the end of June in many states in the south and west of the country.
One of them, Florida, alone has recorded more than half a million cases since the start of the crisis.
The health authorities of this tourist state, which has 20 million inhabitants, announced on Wednesday a decrease in the number of cases of daily contamination.
A slowdown due in part to the closure of screening centers last week, as a precaution, as tropical storm Isaias approached its coast.
Arizona, in the west of the country, is among the other worst affected states today.
More than 500 inmates of a prison in the city of Tucson – nearly half of the total population of the establishment – have tested positive, local prison authorities have informed.
