Iran Press/ America: A record number of coronavirus cases were reported Thursday, breaking a record set Wednesday of more than 100,000 cases in a single day.
A total of 120,048 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, nearly 16,000 more than on Wednesday, according to an NBC News.
The United States has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. More than 236,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the US, according to NBC News data.
By comparison, there were 291,557 American soldiers killed in battle during World War II, according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province of China.1 On 30 January 2020 the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 epidemic a public health emergency of international concern.
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