The United States deplored more than 1,800 additional deaths from the new coronavirus in 24 hours on Friday, a balance down slightly from previous days, according to the count of Johns Hopkins University continuously updated. With these 1,883 deaths recorded between 8:30 p.m. local time on Friday and the day before, the total toll of the epidemic in the United States is more than 64,700 victims.
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It is the heaviest price paid by a country in absolute value, even if in proportion to their population, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom or France are more affected. The United States also has the highest number of people diagnosed with Covid-19, with more than 1.1 million cases officially registered. Nearly 165,000 people are declared cured.
Balance sheets on the rise
For three days, the 24-hour American balance sheets had started to rise again, with between 2,000 and 2,500 daily deaths. Daily reports in the United States have not fallen below the 1,000 death mark in the past month. And since mid-April, the country has been stuck on a "plateau" from which it is struggling to descend.
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The variable geometry confinements introduced by the American states, very different from the harsher measures put in place in China, are "one of the reasons why this plateau is prolonged", estimated with AFP William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. The epicenter of the American epidemic is located in New York, which continues to record nearly 1,000 new hospitalizations per day due to the coronavirus, even if the number of daily deaths is down sharply.