U.S. Reports 17,000 New COVID-19 Cases in a Single Day
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The United States reported its first case of the coronavirus in late January 2020. However, the number of new daily cases began to increase dramatically in mid-March 2020.
The first time new Covid-19 cases in the United States exceeded 1,000 was on March 17th. At that time, coronavirus cases increased by 1,800. The following week, the increase exceeded 10,000 cases. In fact, on March 26, 2020, the number of new cases in the country reached 17,200.
This increase also surpassed the record of China, the country that was the initial epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. China only once recorded a number of new cases in the tens of thousands, namely 14,100 cases on February 12, 2020.
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