The United States has officially surpassed China and Italy in its number of COVID-19 cases, becoming the country with the most reported novel coronavirus cases in the world. RELATED: CDC’s ‘flatten the curve’ graphic shows why social distancing amid coronavirus pandemic is necessary According to a running tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, the U.S.
had 82,404 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday evening. China had 81,782 and Italy had 80,589. See mobile version here. The news comes as the global infection count passed the half-a-million threshold Thursday, according to the Johns Hopkins count.
U.S. deaths from the pandemic have now topped 1,000, in another grim milestone for a global outbreak that is taking lives and wreaking