Iran Press/America: The United States is now home to more cases of Covid-19 than any other country in the world, surpassing both Italy and China, where the outbreak first originated.
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in the United States hit almost 104,000 early on Saturday, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally, with the number of fatalities close to 1,700, pushing the global death toll up to 27,324.
The biggest cluster by far is in New York, home to almost half the cases in the US.
Worldwide, the cases have reached more than 595,800 of which about 131,000 have recovered.
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