US reports over 2000 daily COVID-19 fatalities for 3 consecutive days

For three consecutive days now, the United States has reported over 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period , according to the latest real-time tally Thursday reported by Johns Hopkins University.

Currently the worst hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities, the country recorded 2,053 deaths on Thursday, after 2,502 deaths on Wednesday and 2,207 on Tuesday.

So far, 62,906 people have now died in the United States, according to the Baltimore-based university.

Reported by: Fatimah Oyesanmi