US surpasses Italy as the country with the highest number of deaths from coronavirus

Today, the United States has the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in the world: 18,860 deaths and just over half a million infected people. This is followed by Italy with 18,849 dead and 147,577 infected.

On Friday, 2108 deaths were recorded in the country, which is more compared to the previous three days, when 1878, 1936 and 1879 deaths were recorded. 60% of the deceased over the past 24 hours in the United States, they lived in three states: New York, where 777 people died, as well as in the neighboring state of New Jersey with 232 dead and Michigan, where there were 205 deaths, in the figure, which suggests a record for this state in the midwest of the country.

Anyway, pandemic “not yet peak” country warned Dr. Deborah Birks, White House Coronavirus Coordinator.

This information is known when Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said he expected a “real degree of normality in November.”

In New York, on the other hand, one of the states most affected by Covid-19- Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that public schools will be closed until the end of the school year. a measure he called “painful,” but “necessary to save lives,” in order to continue to carry out social distance and defeat the coronavirus.

“This is not an easy or satisfactory solution for those of us who are making efforts to ensure that our children receive the best education possible,” said De Blasio at a press conference.

New York’s largest state education system in the United States With 1.1 million students, she closed her schools on March 15 and launched a distance learning system a week later.