(Newswire.net — August 12, 2020) — The U.S. states of Florida and Texas, where a significant increase in coronavirus cases has been recorded in recent weeks – reported a new record total number of newly infected citizens on Saturday, Reuters reports.
In the state of Florida, the number of reported cases reached a record 11,458 on Saturday, the Health Department announced – indicating that for the second time, in the last three days, the number of new cases exceeded 10,000 within twenty-four hours, Reuters reports.
For six days in a row, the number of citizens placed in-hospital treatment in the state of Texas has steadily increased, a total of 7,890, of which 238 have been hospitalized within the last 24 hours. North Carolina and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alaska, Missouri, Idaho, and Alabama reported record data on newly affected citizens on Friday.
Those numbers are higher than the balance reported by any of the European countries during the peak of the pandemic on their own territories, Reuters reported.
By comparison, in New York State, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States in recent months, a total of 844 patients were transferred to the hospital on Saturday – much less than the nearly 19,000 patients who were in hospitals in the full swing of the pandemic.
In the last seven days, eleven American states recorded a double-digit percentage increase in confirmed new cases. These are Arizona, Florida, Nevada, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, and Utah, the Voice of America reports.
According to the data of the University “Johns Hopkins”, the total number of people infected with the COVID-19 in the USA is 2.8 million. Almost 130,000 citizens died as a result of that disease.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to minimize the jump in confirmed cases and has explained it as a function of greater testing and again this week predicted that the virus would “disappear.”
In a July Fourth speech at the White House, Trump claimed without evidence that 99% of cases in the United States were “totally harmless.”