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More than six million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the US, according to Johns Hopkins University.
On Monday, university researchers recorded 6,006,327 COVID-19 cases in the US and 183,203 deaths.
Three weeks ago, the United States reached five million confirmed cases.
Donald Trump affirmed that the United States has had the best response to the pandemic in the world
Johns Hopkins researchers have been tracking global cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
The United States has had the highest number of cases in recent months, with Brazil in second place with 3,862,311 cases and 120,828 deaths as of Monday.
The UK has the thirteenth highest number of cases in the world, at 338,079, with 41,588 deaths, according to the university.
Health officials in the US believe that the number of cases is much higher, with about 10 times more people infected for each reported case, due to the limits of the tests and the large number of mild cases that are not known. have been reported or not recognized.
Many Americans have resisted wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing, and the United States failed to contain the spread of coronavirus greeted with amazement and alarm in the rest of the world.
On Friday, Donald Trump used a 70-minute speech in which he accepted the Republican presidential nomination to affirm that the United States has had one of the best responses in the world to the pandemic.
The president said: “The United States has one of the lowest fatality rates of any major country in the world.
“The European Union’s fatality rate is almost three times higher than ours. In total, the nations of Europe have experienced a 30% greater increase in excess mortality than the United States.
“Unfortunately, from the beginning, our opponents have shown themselves capable of nothing more than partisan ability to criticize.
“When I took bold steps to issue a China travel ban, Joe Biden called it hysterical and xenophobic. If we had listened to Joe, hundreds of thousands more Americans would have died.”
The coronavirus pandemic has drastically reduced support for Trump, but he sought to improve his chances in his speech by declaring that there will be a vaccine before the end of 2020, despite virulent disagreement from epidemiologists.
