FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers place a stretcher inside an ambulance at Texas Children's Hospital as cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spike in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare
(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday reported 6,571,867 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 34,240 cases from its previous count, and said the number of deaths had risen by 961 to 195,053.
The CDC’s tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, was of 4 p.m. ET on Sept. 15 versus its previous report a day earlier.
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
(Reporting by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
