Washington – U.S continues to lead the contagion figures of COVID-19 in the world, closing this Saturday with more than 2.5 million cases and 125,480 deaths, according to the independent count by Johns Hopkins University.
The balance at 8:00 pm revealed that 43,536 people contracted the disease in the last 24 hours, which totaled 2,505,593 positive cases in the country.
During the day, 502 new deaths were recorded, according to the calculation.
On Friday, the United States broke its daily record for coronavirus infections, with 45,330 new cases, a fact that has been attributed to the outbreak of the disease in southern and western states of the country, such as Florida, Texas, California and Arizona.
New York, however, remains the worst hit state in the United States for the coronavirus with 391,923 confirmed cases and 31,368 deaths, a figure just below Brazil, the United Kingdom and Italy.
In New York City alone, 22,441 people have died.
New York is followed by neighboring New Jersey with 14,948 deaths, Massachusetts with 8,040 and Illinois with 6,873 deaths.
Other states with a large number of deaths are Pennsylvania with 6,579 (unchanged in the last 24 hours), Michigan with 6,153, California with 5,869 or Connecticut with 4,311.
In terms of infections, California is the second state only behind New York with 207,085.
The provisional balance of deaths -125,480- has already exceeded the lowest level of the initial estimates of the White House, which projected at best between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths due to the pandemic.
President Donald Trump lowered those estimates and was confident that the final figure would rather be between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although in his latest calculations he already predicted up to 110,000 deaths, a number that has also been exceeded.
For its part, the Institute of Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) of the University of Washington, in whose models of prediction of the evolution of the pandemic the White House often sets, calculates that the United States will arrive in October with about 180,000 dead.
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