The United States, the country most affected by the pandemic in the world, reached 23,923,062 cases of covid-19 i 397,494 deaths, According to the independent count of Johns Hopkins University.
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These figures represent 198,477 more infections than the previous day and 2,109 additional deaths. The country is expected to overcome the barrier of 400,000 deaths from coronavirus disease between Monday and Tuesday.
The state of New York continues to be the hardest hit in the country by the pandemic with 40,993 deaths, followed by California, which is now second in the statistics with 33,551, Texas (32,596), Florida (24.137) i New Jersey (20,414).
Other states with a large number of deaths are Illinois (20,050), Pennsylvania (19,255), Michigan (14,669), Massachusetts (13,652) and Georgia (12,296).
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Outgoing President Donald Trump, on the other hand, downgraded those estimates and was confidentor in which the final figure would be rather between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although it later predicted up to 110,000 deaths, a number that has also been surpassed by far.
In a crucial week for the country, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he wants to speed up the vaccination campaign. The Democrat hopes to take over the presidency on January 20 and introduce a series of measures to deal with the pandemic.
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