Signaling that Covid conditions are improving nationally, all the pandemic metrics except deaths continue to fall noticeably in the United States.
Known coronavirus positive cases in the country have fallen by 18 percent in the last two weeks, according to the New York Times' latest data.
Covid casualties rose by 15 percent during the same period.
The total number of people losing their lives due to coronavirus infection in the country has risen to 1,056,434, as per Johns Hopkins University's latest data.
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