United States surpasses 20 million coronavirus cases

United States has now exceeded 20 million cumulative cases of coronavirus and recorded a new hospitalization record for the fourth day in a row, hours after the country entered 2021 and left the deadliest month in the pandemic.

In total, the country counts 20,043,565 infections and 346,894 deaths by covid-19, according to the updated count from Johns Hopkins University.

The country worst affected by the coronavirus in the past 24 hours has added 221,444 confirmed cases and 3,255 deaths, according to a specialized portal which maintains the national account and despite the fact that the authorities had warned of the low number of tests or delayed results by the holidays.

December was the worst month of the pandemic in the United States, both in terms of infections and deaths and hospitalizations. In all cases, the peaks of April have been exceeded – when New York and neighboring states have collapsed– and in the middle of the year, when the epidemic became widespread in much of the south and west of the country.

However, experts have warned that the numbers could increase even more throughout the territory in the coming weeks, following the meetings and trips of the end of the year holidays.