March 26, 2020

US surpasses China with over 82 000 cases of the Covid-19 virus

By Newsroom

The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country with at least 82,404 positive tests. The figures are according to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University. The US overtook China which has 81,782 cases and Italy which has 80,589.

Over 1,100 people have already died with Covid-19 have died in the US.

Meanwhile the number of Americans filing for unemployment has surged to a record high as the economy goes into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 3.3 million people registered to claim jobless benefits for the week ended 21 March, according to Department of Labor data.

That is nearly five times more than the previous record of 695,000 set in 1982.

 

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