US sees record 120,000 cases in a day as Texas edges towards 1m infections; New South Wales has one locally acquired case. Follow the updates
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More than 128,000 new covid infections reported todayhttps://t.co/TwywRrVwwO
NBC News reports that in the US, Texas is closing in on its one millionth case of Covid-19. The report says;
With Texas averaging about 7,000 new infections a day over the last two weeks, NBC News was projecting that the state would become the first to cross the million case threshold later Friday.
Texas eclipsed California, which currently has 960,361 cases, for the lead in this sad category last month. But both states have seen a surge of new cases in the past two weeks.”
Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.
Melissa Davey here with you brining you the latest Covid-19 news as it happens.
