Wednesday 22 July 2020

US daily coronavirus deaths surpass 1,000 for first time since June

US death toll at more than 142,000 while Trump admits Covid-19 crisis will ‘get worse before it gets better’

Daily deaths due to Covid-19 on Tuesday surpassed 1,000 for the first time in the US since the start of June, as Donald Trump admitted the crisis would “get worse” before it got better.

The seven-day average for the number of deaths in the country has been slowly rising this month, according to multiple data analyses, and went past the 1,000 mark on Tuesday, taking US fatalities to more than 142,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has forecasted that the country will reach 150,000 deaths by early August.

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