‘Covid-19 infected about 60 million people in the US’

The total number of COVID19 cases in the United States surpassed 60 million on Sunday and has killed at least 837594 people in the US since January 2020 according to research from Johns Hopkins UniversityThe US remains the nation most impacted by the pandemic with the worldrsquos most cases and deaths making up around 20 per cent of the global caseload It also accounts for more than 15 per cent of global mortalityAs of 421 pm local time 2121 GMT Sunday the US COVID19 case count had risen to 60062077 with a total of 837504 deaths according to the statistics reported Xinhua News Agency On November 9 2020 the US COVID19 caseload reached 10 million crossed 20 million on January 1 2021 surpassed 30 million on March 24 Furthermore the caseload surpassed 40 million on September 6 and surpassed 50 million on December 13 reported the news agencyThe US on December 1 2021 reported its first case of the lsquoOmicronrsquo variant The case has been detected in the US state of California Top Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci was quoted as saying by CNNlsquoDeltacron likely a lab contaminationrsquoAfter a scientist in Cyprus claimed that his team has identified a new variant being dubbed lsquoDeltacronrsquo Indianorigin COVID expert at the World Health Organization WHO Dr Krutika Kuppalli tweeted ldquoDeltacron is not real and is likely due to sequencing artifact lab contamination of Omicron sequence fragments in a Delta specimenrdquoLetrsquos not merge names of infectious diseases and leave it to celebrity couplesrdquoEarlier Tom Peacock a virologist at the Imperial College London had said rdquoWhen new variants come through sequencing lab contamination isnrsquot that uncommon very very tiny volumes of liquid can cause this just usually these fairly clearly contaminated sequences are not reported by major media outletsrdquoMartin Michaelis Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Kent told The Mirror ldquoResearchers from Cyprus have sequenced samples of SARSCoV2 the coronavirus that causes COVID and received genomic sequences that combine features of the Omicron and Delta variants It is not yet clear whether this is real or a sequencing error or the consequence of contaminationrdquo 8339659 No of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours307255380 Total no of cases worldwide5489889 Total no of deaths worldwideChinarsquos Tianjin on partial lockdownThe major port of Tianjin may be facing Chinarsquos first local outbreak of omicron of any size less than a month before the Winter Olympics open in nearby Beijing State broadcaster CCTV said the government has divided Tianjin and its 14 million residents into three levels of restrictions Buses and trains from Tianjin to Beijing have been suspended and people are told not to leave the city unless they have pressing businessThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever