Iran Press/ America: The death toll also spiked, to about 2,500, as New Jersey added 1,854 probable deaths to its overall tally.
Texas reported 5,996 new Coronavirus cases on Thursday, beating Wednesday’s record of 5,551. The state’s rolling average of 4,581 was a record and 340 percent higher than the rolling average on Memorial Day. The 47 new deaths were the most since May 20, according to tracking by The Washington Post.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) raised alarms about the biggest jump in new cases in his state since April, emphasizing that more than increased testing is at play. Ohio reported 892 new cases on Thursday, compared to 632 on Wednesday.
More than 2,504,588 people in the United States have been infected with the Coronavirus and at least 126,780 have died, according to a New York Times database.
The World Health Organization said the global pandemic’s hotbed is now in Latin America, which has reported 100,000 fatalities as of this week.
The global death toll is 491,793 with 9,711,197 confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization.
COVID-19 was first detected in China's Wuhan in late December and has since spread across the world.
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