Covid in the USA: over 20,000 new cases for 4 days in a row

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July 10, 2021The alarm for the Delta variant is growing in the United States where, for the fourth day in a row, the threshold of 20,000 new cases of coronavirus infection has been exceeded. The authorities sound the alarm: "It hasn't happened since last May".

Rochelle Walensky, chief executive of the CDC, the US health authority, explained how over 9 million Americans live in counties where cases are increasing and where the vaccination rate is less than 40%.

It is here, he added, that the delta variant is developing most, overall 47.8% of the American population is fully vaccinated and over 20 US states have vaccinated over half of their residents.

US President Joe Biden has called for increased vaccination to counter the Delta variant. "We have to go community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood and many times from door to door, literally knocking on doors," Biden said.

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Florida has increased this week at a rate not recorded in the past two months with a total of 23,697 new infections between July 2 and 8 and a positivity rate reaching 7. 8%, according to data provided by the Florida Department of Health. Since March 1, 2020, 2,361,360 cases and 38,157 deaths due to Covid-19 have been recorded, with 32 deaths this week. Florida, with a population of 21 million, also records a total of 11,138,986 vaccinated (Only 207,089 vaccines administered this week).