The US Now Leads the World in the Number of Coronavirus Infections

By the evening of March 26, more than 81 thousand Americans were infected with COVID-19. The United States now leads the world in the number of people with COVID-19, an acute respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. According to CNN, by the evening of March 26, at least 81,836 cases of infection with a new coronavirus were registered in the United States. According to Johns Hopkins University, China is in second place (81,782 cases), and Italy comes third, with 80,589 COVID-19 infected people. At the same time, mortality from coronavirus in the United States is 6.3 times less than in Italy (1301 people died in the USA, 8215 in Italy) and 2.5 times less than in China (according to official Beijing statistics, 3287 people became victims of COVID-19 in China).