A mobile Covid-19 screening unit in Los Angeles, January 6, 2021. -
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A new record of contaminations and more and more cases of the new British variant of the coronavirus in the United States.
The epidemic is not slowing down across the Atlantic where, according to official figures, nearly 290,000 cases of Covid-19 have been identified in the past 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is the reference, and 3,676 people have died of the disease.
More contagious, the new variant has been detected in at least eight US states.
According to data from the Center for Disease Control Friday, 63 cases of the new variant, which appeared last week in the United States, have been identified, especially in California and Florida.
Cases of the variant that appeared in Britain have also been reported in Colorado, Texas, New York State, Virginia, Georgia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
Over 368,000 dead
Renowned American immunologist Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday that the new variant could be "more widespread in the United States", but said he was not particularly worried.
The day before, the country had recorded a record of almost 4,000 deaths in a single day.
Some 131,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.
In total, the United States has recorded 21.8 million cases and more than 368,000 deaths from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
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