The number of COVID-19 cases diagnosed in the U.S has now surpassed one million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 57,000 people have died so far in the country making up almost a third of the total global tally. More Americans have died with COVID-19 than those that died in the Vietnam War.
The true death rate of COVID-19 is still unclear because of lack of widespread testing, but current numbers suggest a rate much higher than the flu deaths for the 2019-2020 flu season, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which infects between 9 million and 45 million people in the U.S. each year, the CDC estimates.
The U.S. has far more COVID-19 cases than any other country. Spain, which has around 50 million people compared with some 332 million in the U.S, has 232,128 cases. Italy, which has a population of around 62 million people, has 201,505 cases. China, where the outbreak began, is reporting fewer than 84,000 cases. Those numbers are as of Tuesday, April, 28 afternoons.
The virus pandemic has left empty streets across the world It is the same sight across major cities recently. Streets once bustling with people and traffic now left empty, save for the occasional persons passing by. However, places are slowly starting to ease lockdown restrictions, including the US state of Georgia, where barbershops, tattoo parlours, beaches and restaurants are being reopened presently.
