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The United States has set yet another record for new COVID-19 cases with almost 300,000 people testing positive in a single day, as new CDC data suggests the nation’s true death toll is actually approaching half a million. As of Saturday, the total number of US deaths in the pandemic topped 350,000 after 2,398 new … Read more
The United States has set yet another record for new COVID-19 cases with more than 275,000 people testing positive in a single day, as the growing number of hospitalizations continue to cripple the state healthcare systems. At least 275,897 new infections were reported across the country as of Saturday evening, marking the largest single day … Read more
For the second consecutive day, the United States has set a record-high number of coronavirus deaths. On Thursday, the country reported 3,744 fatalities due to COVID-19, data from Johns Hopkins University shows. This breaks the previous record set on Wednesday of 3,725 and brings the total number of deaths to 342,414. The figure also marks … Read more
Florida has reported its highest single day spike for COVID-19 deaths and the number of infections in fellow hotspot state Texas has now surpassed 400,000, prompting fears the United States has lost control of the outbreak despite a plateau in cases across the country. The death toll in Florida increased by 186 on Monday, bringing … Read more
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections, as the World Health Organisation warns there is no return to the ‘old normal’. The rate of cases has been rapidly increasing in the United States, Brazil, India, Japan and Australia, among others. Hong Kong, Bolivia, Sudan and Ethiopia have also seen rises in … Read more
The US has once again set a record-high number of coronavirus cases for the third day in a row, recording more than 63,000 new infections in a single day. This breaks the previous record set on Wednesday of more than 62,000 and brings the total number of cases to more than 3.1 million. So far, … Read more
For the second consecutive day, the US has set a record-high number of coronavirus cases with more than 62,000 new infections reported in a single day. This breaks the previous record set on Tuesday of 60,021 and brings the total number of cases to 3.05 million. More than 132,000 Americans have died since the pandemic began … Read more
India saw a record 3,900 new coronavirus cases and 195 more deaths today – while New Delhi imposed a special 70 per cent tax on alcohol to clamp down on stockpiling after a ban on liquor was lifted. The country of 1.3billion saw its total number of cases rise to 46,432 while the death toll is … Read more
New York sees 367 deaths in a day – the lowest single-day toll since March 31 – as Gov Cuomo reveals plans to reopen the state, with construction the first to start up again in two weeks Cuomo announced a two-part phase that details how New York state can reopen The governor said phase one … Read more
Stock trading app Robinhood apologizes after platform goes down for 17 HOURS during biggest single-day market surge since 2009 as disgruntled users threaten to file a class-action lawsuit Robinhood is taking heat after an outage with its app that lasted 17 hours The outage came just as markets surged after taking a hit last week Users … Read more