After a week's lull in the number of people getting infected from coronavirus in the United States, the daily infection rate has climbed back to above 20,000.
With 23051 new cases reporting in the last 24 hours, the total number of infections in the country rose to 1,721,926 as of John Hopkins University's 6:00 a.m. ET update Friday.This is 4374 more cases than what was reported in the previous day.
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