Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic In The U.S. -- News Updates April 25, 2020

Daily Mail: US sees record number of new coronavirus cases in a day - but the mortality rate slows: 927,360 Americans have now been infected after a jump of 36,008 in 24 hours while death toll reaches 53,422

* An additional 2,416 deaths were confirmed Thursday; the daily death toll peaked at 2,524 deaths on April 15
* The previous record daily rise in coronavirus cases was on April 10 when the number jumped by 35,579
* It had already jumped close to the record on Thursday, with 34,828 additional infections in 24 hours
* The US has both the highest number of confirmed cases and the highest death toll in the world
* By comparison, Italy has recorded 25,969 deaths and Spain has 22,524 fatalities as of Friday evening
* But despite a rising death toll thousands of Californians flocked to open beaches during a heatwave Friday
* And the anti lockdown sentiment continued with protests in Wisconsin and South Carolina

The rate of coronavirus deaths in the United States has slowed to 2,113 in the past 24 hours, with the total number of people killed standing at 52,422 Friday evening.

An additional 2,416 deaths had been confirmed in the US on Thursday. That daily death toll peaked at 2,524 deaths in a single day on April 15.

Confirmed cases in the nation are creeping towards the one million mark with 927,360 recorded as infected Friday, a record jump of 36,008 in 24 hours.

The previous record daily rise in coronavirus cases was on April 10 when the number jumped by 35,579. It had jumped closed to that Thursday with 34,828 additional infections in 24 hours.

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Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic In The U.S. -- News Updates April 25, 2020

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