This content was published on 06 February 2021 – 01:11
Washington, Feb 5 (EFE) .- The United States reached 26,796,013 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus this Friday and 459,030 deaths from the covid-19 disease, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
The balance at 20.00 local time (01.00 GMT on Saturday) is 3,475 more deaths than on Thursday and 124,680 new infections.
New York State continues as the worst hit in the country by the pandemic with 44,466 deaths, followed by California (43,247), Texas (38,891), Florida (27,457), Pennsylvania (22,208), New Jersey (21,886) and Illinois (21,603) ).
Other states with a large death toll are Michigan (15,750), Massachusetts (14,859), Georgia (14,858) or Arizona (13,948).
In terms of infections, California has 3,387,750, followed by Texas with 2,474,914, third is Florida with 1,763,873, New York is fourth with 1,458,809 and Illinois is fifth with 1,141,219.
The provisional death toll -459,030- far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House, which 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 February there will be more than half a million deaths and that in total more than 600,000 will die.
For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (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 June 1 some will have died. 630,000. EFE
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