July 22, 2020 - 12:48 AMT
U.S. daily coronavirus death toll tops 1,000

Tuesday, July 21’s reported deaths from coronavirus have topped 1,000 in the United States for the first time in two weeks, CNN reports citing data from Johns Hopkins University.

1,056 deaths have been reported, along with 62,752 new cases of the virus. On July 7, the death toll was 1,195 -- the only other time in July that threshold has been crossed. Today’s death count will not be finalized for a few more hours.

So far this year, one-quarter of all days (59 out of 202) have seen a death toll from the virus exceeding 1,000.

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