The United States passes on 5 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. The US has both the highest number of confirmed cases and the most deaths of any country in the world.
The total number of confirmed cases worldwide is nearly 20 million, which means that the US accounts for about 25% of all cases worldwide despite only about 4% of the world population. More than 162,000 people in the US have died from COVID-19 complications.
“It’s a number that bends the mind and breaks the heart,” said presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in a statement on Saturday as other trackers showed the U.S. hitting the 5 million case benchmark. “Five million is more than the entire population of Alabama – or of more than half of the states in our union, for that matter.”
Several U.S. lawmakers, including Representatives Louie Gohmert, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ben McAdams and Raúl Grijalva and Senator Rand Paul have tested positive for the disease. Gohmert’s positive test last month prompted House member Nancy Pelosi mandate masks are worn always in the halls of the Second Chamber.
California, the most populous state, accounts for the most confirmed cases in the country with more than 554,000. Florida, Texas and New York follow California, but each has more than 400,000 confirmed cases.
As schools begin instruction in the U.S., nearly 100,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July. In one Georgia district, 250 students and teachers had to be quarantined within one week of the start of the school year due to positive test results at multiple schools.
Brazil has the second most confirmed cases in the world, with almost 3 million. Brazil also has the second highest death toll, with more than 100,000 deaths.
The death toll worldwide reached 727,000 on Sunday.
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