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The number of coronavirus infections in the United States has surpassed 10 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Hospital Sunday night.
With this, the United States became the first country in the world to have more than ten million people infected with the new type of coronavirus, writes MTI.
The number of newly diagnosed infections has increased by approximately one million in the last ten days. On Saturday, for example, more than 131,000 new cases were registered, and the number of cases per day exceeded one hundred thousand four times in the last week. More than 237,000 have already died from the Covid-19 virus-induced disease and its complications.
The epidemic is spreading strongly in the Midwestern states, including primarily North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin. The millionth new infection was registered in South Texas on Saturday.
The majority of deaths due to the epidemic have so far occurred in New York State: 14 percent of all deaths have been in this East Coast state.
By the end of the week, a record number of new infections were reported in New Mexico, Kansas, Nevada, and the number of reported infections in Oklahoma doubled. In particular, the proportion of patients in nursing homes has increased.
In a speech in Wilmington on Saturday, President-elect Joe Biden promised to make fighting the epidemic a priority. On Sunday, he reported in the same place that Vivek Murthy was chief physician and David
Kessler, the former head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is being appointed two heads of the anti-epidemic task force.
Biden will make the official announcement on Monday. The working group is expected to have 12 members. Some analyzes assume that Bill Gates, a former Microsoft co-founder, will also be involved. In an interview with Fox Television over the weekend, Gates said he was ready for this and also indicated his intention to participate in vaccine research.
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