Florida on Sunday became the first US state to report an increase of more than 15,000 Covid-19 cases in a single day, as pressure grew on officials to mandate the wearing of masks.
A further 15,300 people tested positive for the disease over the past 24 hours, the state’s health department said, up from 10,360 the previous day.
That is a bigger increase than the 11,694 reported by California on July 8, which governor Gavin Newsom said had been bolstered by a backlog of tests in hard-hit Los Angeles county. That in turn had unseated longtime record holder New York and its peak of 11,571 cases on April 15.
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