The US Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed the system for counting confirmed and potential cases of coronavirus infection in the country per day, reports TASS .
According to new data, the total number of these cases increased over the past 24 hours by 403 359. The department explained the sharp increase in the indicator by the fact that the calculations began to take into account new information that comes from the state of Texas about possible cases of infection.
It is clarified that previously, when calculating the total number, only information received from Texas about confirmed cases of infection was taken into account. Not all states are reporting potential cases.
Earlier it became known that the record for incidence was broken again in the USA coronavirus: over 400 thousand cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the country per day, which is almost 150 thousand more than the previous maximum.
December 10 it was reported that the United States has set a record for deaths from coronavirus : For the first time, the country reported more than three thousand deaths from the virus in one day.