The United States has seen a record 18 000 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 345 deaths over the past 24 hours, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.
There are now 97 028 declared virus cases in the country and there have been 1 475 deaths, Johns Hopkins said.
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