(Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling)
NEW YORK, March 24 (Xinhua) – The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 30 million on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns University Hopkins.
More specifically, this figure rose at 6:27 p.m. local time (22:27 GMT) to 30,001,245 on Wednesday, with a death toll of 545,053, according to the CSSE count.
California is the most affected state, with 3,647,735 cases. Texas confirmed 2,765,635, followed by Florida (2,021,656), New York (1,814,662) and Illinois (over 1.2 million).
According to CSSE data, other states with more than 800,000 cases include Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Jersey, Arizona and Tennessee.
The United States remains to this day the country most affected by the pandemic in the world, alone accounting for more than 24% of the global total of cases and nearly 20% of the death toll worldwide.
A forecast updated Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the number of new cases over the next four weeks is expected to remain stable or register an uncertain trend, with between 176,000 and 544,000 new cases. reportable by April 17.
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