BREAKING: United States surpasses grim milestone of 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases
More than 56,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Sunday with over 1,000 deaths as the virus continues to surge across the country.Meanwhile, the country hit second-hardest by the virus – Brazil – has exceeded 100,000 deaths and three million confirmed cases as the world nears 20 million total cases, according toPresident Donald Trump has blamed the record-high cases in the US on expanded testing.
The US is currently experiencing a 7.5% positivity rate showing that the virus is still being transmitted high levels across the country. As a baseline, the World Health Organization said countries with adequate testing should be hovering around a 5% positivity rate. ‘The fact that the test positivity rate is increasing while we’re increasing the number of tests is extremely strong evidence that the surge in cases is real,’ Dr Justin Lessler, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, said.
Many states are reporting positivity rates higher than the country’s average, including Arizona, which currently has a 13.4% positivity rate, down from the previous week’s 15.5% positivity rate. Florida, one of the states currently experiencing the highest surges of the virus, is reporting a 17.5% positivity rate after hovering above 17% for weeks. The state has confirmed more than 527,000 cases of the virus and at least 8,108 have died as of Sunday.
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