US COVID-19 cases surpass 2m: Johns Hopkins University
An aerial view of people eating dinner at the River House Grille on the Nautical Mile on June 10 in Freeport, New York.
The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed the 2 million mark on Wednesday to reach 2,000,464 as of 11:33pm local time (3:33am GMT on Thursday), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Meanwhile, the national death toll from the disease rose to 112,924, according to the CSSE.
New York state remains the hardest-hit with 380,156 cases and 30,542 fatalities. Other states with over 100,000 cases include New Jersey, California, Illinois, and Massachusetts, the CSSE data showed.
According to The Washington Post, since the start of June, more than a dozen US states, including Texas and California, have recorded their highest-ever seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases, partly caused by the protests against police brutality that have swept the country in the past two weeks.
