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US marks record 53,069 coronavirus cases in 24 hours
A woman wears a mask as she walks in Miami Beach, Florida on July 2, 2020. Florida on Thursday reported a record of more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases, as it struggles to rein in the virus's spread, blamed in part on young people congregating in the US state. PHOTO | CHANDAN KHANNA | AFP
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- Florida is a key focus of public health experts worried about a surge in southern and western US states and it now has more than 169,000 cases.
The US notched more than 53,000 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours Thursday, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed, a new one-day record as infections surge around the country.
The Baltimore-based university's tracker showed 53,069 more cases as of 8:30 pm (0030 Friday GMT), bringing the total number of cases since the pandemic reached the United States to 2,735,339.
