Infections drop in the United States | Less than 40 …

The United States has recorded fewer than 40,000 daily cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, its lowest figure in five months, according to the tally from the local university Johns hopkins.

This figure peaked at nearly 300,000 new cases on January 8 in the country worst affected by the pandemic, with more than half a million deaths from the disease. But now it has fallen back to pre-Thanksgiving celebrations levels in November and Christmas, when travel and gatherings led to further spread of the virus in the United States. Another encouraging sign as the country continues its vaccination campaign is that daily deaths and hospitalizations from the coronavirus have also fallen.

Currently, three vaccines against the virus are administered in the country, and the government of President Joe Biden says the campaign to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days of his tenure is on track. But amid the good news, some states are lifting pandemic restrictions, such as being required to wear a mask. Biden called these measures premature and dangerous. Since the first case of coronavirus was detected in the United States, 28.9 million people have been infected with the disease, of which 520,000 have died.

According to the American newspaper The New York TimesThe lives of Americans have been fundamentally changed by the virus. “High school concerts, parades and basketball games have been canceled. Countless numbers of people are unemployed and find it difficult to find housing. Many schools and colleges had little or no face-to-face classes this fall. More than 321,000 cases have been linked to universities during the pandemic. Thousands of additional cases have been identified in primary and secondary schools. ” California is now the state most affected by the pandemic with 53,214 deaths, followed by new York (48,049), Texas (44,755), Florida (31,387), Pennsylvania (24.208), New sweater (23.491) e Illinois (22.902).