The US has for the first time recorded more than 70,000 new coronavirus infections in a single day, led by Texas and Florida which each tallied more than 10,000 cases.
The one-day record of 71,229 cases reported on Thursday was accompanied by an alarming rise in coronavirus-related fatalities. The 977 deaths recorded over the past 24 hours by the Covid Tracking Project was up from 855 on Wednesday and at a level not consistently seen since the tail-end of the earlier outbreak in the US north-east two months ago.
Both Florida, with 156 deaths, and Texas, with 129, reported single-day records, helping push the number of fatalities in southern states over 500 for the first time.
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