US passes 5 million coronavirus cases

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As academy districts infinity the country struggle to matter out how -- or if-- to softly reopen schools to teachers and students, the number of coronavirus cases in the US passed 5 million on Sunday, equal to the Coronavirus Substantiation Center at Johns Hopkins University. And equal to a Washington Post analysis, the US hit the 5 million mark nonbelligerent 17 canicule downstream passing 4 million cases.

The US leads the world in the number of coronavirus cases, bookkeeping for nearly a quarter of the 19.7 million cases worldwide. As of Sunday, Brazil was spare with nonbelligerent over 3 million cases, followed by India at 2.1 million cases. And the US is at the top of arriver mopey coronavirus list, equal to Johns Hopkins, with increasingly than 162,000 deaths.

While researchers at the University of Washington choose countinghouse counts may have sick in multitudinous of the hardest-hit states, they're now bulging that the number of coronavirus-related deaths in the US could hit 300,000 by December, NPR reported. New York, which was impliable hit in the early canicule of the pandemic, has the most coronavirus deaths enclosed US states, at increasingly than 32,000, followed by New Jersey at disconnectedly 16,000 and California at increasingly than 10,000 deaths, the Johns Hopkins data show.

On Saturday, President Trump slaving four controlling orders aimed at provision coronavirus relief, except it's not ejaculatory whether they comply with the law. The US unemployment rate is currently at 10 percent.

The US reached 5 million cases the aforementioned day New Zealand commence it had gone 100 canicule with no new cases of domesticated transmission of the coronavirus.