No fewer than 4,535 persons have died of COVID-19 in the United States of America in the past 24 hours.
This is the most fatality in a single day by any country since the pandemic broke out in Wuhan, China in December.
More than 36, 000 persons have now died of the virus in the US with a alarmingly rising confirmed cases of over 700,000.
Meanwhile President Donald Trump has criticized the handling of some states’ coronavirus mitigation measures, saying he found the stay-at-home orders of governors such as Virginia “too tough.”
Asked if certain states – Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia – should lift their stay-at-home orders, Trump said: “No, but I think elements of what they’ve done are too much.”
