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– This weekend, the US saw the deaths caused by COVID-19 at its lowest point in the last year, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number reported for Sunday, 222 deaths, is the lowest since March 23, 2020, when 192 confirmed deaths were recorded in the first days of the pandemic. However, at a White House briefing, CDC director Rochelle Walensky called for recent trends in them. She noted that cases have increased in the last four weeks, and the CDC is monitoring some variants that are more highly transmissible. Sunday’s number may not be complete either: Because it was Easter, the data may not include full reports from all states. California numbers were not available Sunday, for example, Hill said.
Really, Wall Street Journal reported early Tuesday that the new cases were much higher in the number of months than they were on Sunday, probably due to the lack of reporting by some states over the holiday weekend. The US reported 603 deaths through COVID on Monday. But in Monday’s briefing, Walensky confirmed that the average number of deaths last week was lower than the previous week. She noted that while some of the news remains bleak, millions of Americans are “stepping up every day to get vaccinated,” at an average rate of 3 million a day. -19, “she said. Coronavirus has claimed 555,600 lives in the United States and more than 2.86 million worldwide. (Read more COVID-19 articles.)