Iran Press/ America: The 5 million mark comes just 17 days after the US total exceeded 4 million. The previous million cases were also reported in about a two-week span.
Reported US cases have doubled since late June, peaking on July 17 with a staggering 76,491 cases in a single day. The United States leads the world with a quarter of all global infections.
Brazil and India follow, with 3 million and 2.1 million reported infections, respectively.
The United States tallied 50,002 coronavirus cases and 579 deaths on Sunday after five straight days of death tolls greater than 1,000, according to The Post’s tracking.
The single-day death totals in Arkansas and Nevada set records, and new deaths were higher than current seven-day averages in Louisiana, Minnesota, Washington, and West Virginia.
The global death toll nears 734,000 with 20,024,263 confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization.
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