The United States recorded 57,683 new infections due to the coronavirus on Friday, according to a count at 8:30 p.m. local time from Johns Hopkins University, which refers, a record level since the start of the pandemic.
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On the eve of US National Day, the country also recorded 728 new deaths from Covid-19, the source said, bringing the total death toll to 129,405. The United States, by far the most severely affected country in the world, has now detected nearly 2.8 million cases in all.
An increase in cases in the south and west
The south and west of the territory are seeing an outbreak, which "puts the whole country at risk" in the words of Anthony Fauci, director of the American Institute of Infectious Diseases. Many states have had to pause deconfinement, or even backtrack, hastily closing bars and beaches. And the Republican Governor of Texas has announced that wearing a mask will now be mandatory in public places.
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But President Donald Trump, very criticized for his management of the pandemic, only briefly touched on the subject in his speech on Friday evening at Mount Rushmore during an evening of fireworks. in honor of July 4th. "The United States of America is the fairest and most exceptional country to have ever existed on Earth," he said before a cheering crowd, chanting "Four more years", and in which masks were rare.