The US has overtaken China to become the country with the largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world, with 81,943 Americans now testing positive for Covid-19.
State-by-state figures published late on Thursday showed confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US had overtaken the 81,285 cases reported by China, with the biggest outbreaks in New York, New Jersey and California. A total of 1,177 Americans have died from the rapidly-spreading virus.
Donald Trump, the US president, said the figures were a “tribute to our testing” and that he would speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping later on Thursday.
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