United States exceeds 80 thousand deaths from coronavirus | International



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Deaths from the coronavirus in the United States exceeded 80,000, according to a count released Monday by Johns Hopkins University, At a time when the country has had the highest number of fatal cases for several weeks.

The United States fails to contain the epidemic, with more than 1.3 million confirmed cases. The state of New York was for several weeks the main focus of the crisis and so far more than 26,000 deaths have been registered there.

This balance could be underestimated, The Centers for Infectious Disease Prevention (CDC) warned Monday.

The national balance of more than 50,000 dead was reached two and a half weeks ago, on April 24.

This weekend, for the first time the daily balance of deaths was less than 1,000, with 776 fatal cases collected Sunday in the last 24 hours by Johns Hopkins University.

However, it is still too early to clarify whether these data really set a trend, at a time when new important foci are beginning to appear, such as the one that is developing around the capital, Washington.

According to a model from the University of Massachusetts, for the Next May 30, the United States will reach a total of 103,000 deaths from the pandemic.



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