US hits 5 million COVID-19 cases

August 09, 2020 19:42

The United States has just passed a grim milestone, with Johns Hopkins University data showing the country has recorded more than five million cases of Covid-19.

More than 162,000 people have died.

The US has more cases than any other country in the world, by a huge margin.

The second highest number of cases is in Brazil, which has 2.96 million cases so far, followed by India and Russia.

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