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Washington, Apr 4 (EFE) .- The United States reached this Sunday 30,705,525 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 554,994 deaths from the covid-19 disease, according to the independent count of Johns Hopkins University.
This balance at 20.00 local time (00.00 GMT on Monday) is 215 deaths more than on Saturday and 36,699 new infections.
This Sunday’s count shows a decrease in the statistics of the pandemic with respect to the last days that may be related to the holidays that the United States has lived due to the celebration of Holy Week.
California is now the state hardest hit by the pandemic with 59,614 deaths (unchanged from Saturday), followed by New York (50,633), Texas (48,695), Florida (33,674), Pennsylvania (25,173), New Jersey (24,637) and Illinois (23,654).
Other states with a large number of deaths are Georgia (19,212), Ohio (18,643, without variation), Massachusetts (17,281, without variation), Michigan (17,259, without variation) or Arizona (16,990).
In terms of infections, California adds 3,675,272 (without variation), followed by Texas with 2,802,173, third is Florida with 2,081,826, New York is fourth with 1,905,737 and Illinois is fifth with 1,256,533.
The provisional death toll – 554,994 – far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House, which in the time of Donald Trump projected in the best of cases between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths due to the pandemic.
The new president of the United States, Joe Biden, has predicted that in total more than 600,000 people in the country will die from the virus.
For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, estimates that by July 1, some will have died. 600,000 people.
As far as vaccines are concerned, some 106.2 million people (32% of the population) have received at least one dose, of which 61.4 million (18%) are already fully inoculated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). EFE
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