The coronavirus continues to claim more and more victims in the United States which recorded for the second day in a row nearly 2,000 deaths linked to the epidemic, according to the count on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. local from Johns Hopkins University. It is once again the worst daily report in the world since the start of the pandemic.
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This new record leap (+1,973 dead), slightly higher than the previous day (+1,939), brings to 14,695 the total number of deaths recorded. The world's leading power now exceeds Spain (14,555 dead), but remains less bereaved so far than Italy (17,669). The United States alone also has more than a quarter of the officially declared cases in the world: 429,052 in total, according to figures from Johns Hopkins, continuously updated.
New York, the main focus of the epidemic in the United States
The country has noted since the middle of last week more than 1,000 new daily deaths, despite the containment measures which have been gradually implemented, State by State. That of New York constitutes by far the main focus of the American epidemic, with 6,268 deaths recorded. It has recorded a new record increase in the last 24 hours (+779), but the situation is stabilizing there, tried to reassure its governor, Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday, while recalling that the New Yorkers were "absolutely not out of the woods. "
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"We are doing better than many other countries"
Authorities warned last week that between 100,000 and 240,000 people in total could die from Covid-19 in the United States, but Donald Trump said he was confident he could "do much better" than these projections. "We have carefully studied the figures for Italy and Spain. We often fare better than several other countries," said Dr Deborah Birx, member of the White House crisis unit, alongside him. on the virus. "The American healthcare system is quite extraordinary".
The pandemic has infected more than 1.46 million people worldwide and has killed at least 86,289 people, in 192 countries, since its appearance in December in China, according to a count made by AFP from official sources Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. GMT.