Number of US COVID-19 cases surges past 6 million

Number of US COVID-19 cases surges past 6 million
Number of US COVID-19 cases surges past 6 million
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According to John Hopkins University data, the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States of Americaย  has surged past 6,000,000 on Monday, August 31.

6,002,615 coronavirus cases have been confirmed today, among them 183 thousand deaths. The US only passed the five million mark at the beginning of August, making the development quite a spike.

The surge in the number of cases can be largely attributed to lockdown measures being lifted almost countrywide, in hopes of boosting the economy.

The World Health Organizationโ€™s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hasย calledย opening up without viral control precautions aย โ€œrecipe for disaster. We want to see children returning to school and people returning to work places, but we want to see it done safely,โ€ย Tedros said at a news conference, the same day the US statistics became known.

USA has become the worst hit country since late March, when it statistically overtook COVID-19โ€™s ground zero โ€“ China.

โ€œNo country can just pretend the pandemic is over,โ€ย was another point made by Tedros. At the same time, speakers during the recent Republican National Convention, like Donald Trumpโ€™s economic advisor Larry Kudlow, appeared to haveย saidย that the crisis has already been overcome, urging people to return to their workplaces.

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Harry Johnson has been the assignment editor for eTurboNews for mroe than 20 years. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is originally from Europe. He enjoys writing and covering the news.

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