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The United States recorded at least 40,870 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the largest single-day increase of the pandemic, bringing the total number of Americans who have tested positive to at least 2.475 million.

Iran Press/America: Almost 125,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, the highest known death toll from the highly infections disease in the world, according to a Reuters tally.

Despite the grim news from Texas, Florida, and elsewhere, U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States was coming back from the coronavirus crisis, which has halted large parts of the economy and left millions jobless.

"We have a little work to do, and we’ll get it done. We’re having some very good numbers coming out in terms of the comeback, the comeback of our nation, and I think it’s going very rapidly and it’s going to be very good," he said at an event in the White House.

This is while Vice President Mike Pence said that in Texas and Florida "we’re seeing more and more young people, under the age of 35, who are testing positive. In many cases, they have no symptoms."

Also reporting record rises in cases this week were Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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