NEW YORK, 10 August. - (NA) - The U.S. has surpassed five million virus cases, according to the New York  Times database. 

 

The infection total has more than doubled over the past two months.

 

No other country has reported as many infections: Brazil ranks second, with about three million, and India is third with two million.

 

President Trump signed executive measures for pandemic relief as stimulus talks stalled. 

 

Brazil reached two coronavirus milestones: more than 100,000 deaths and more than three million cases.

 

The United States now tests roughly 720,000 people a day, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.

 

The number of new coronavirus cases daily peaked on July 16, with 75,697. It has been slowly tapering off since then, to a seven-day average of around 54,000 per day.

 

At least 161,000 people have died since the pandemic began. The seven-day average daily death toll is hovering around 1,000. That is down from a peak of more than 2,200 on a single day in mid-April, when bigger cities like New York and Seattle were hit the hardest.   - (ANA) -

 

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