10 million coronavirus cases in the U.S.
The United States reported its 10 millionth coronavirus case on Sunday, with the latest million added in just 10 days.
The country is struggling with its most widespread wave of infection since the pandemic began. Its seven-day average of new cases now exceeds 100,000 per day, far more than any other country’s, and the U.S. now accounts for a fifth of global cases, which are nearing 50 million. Hospitalizations and deaths are up.
States in the Great Lakes, the Great Plains and the Mountain West have seen the fastest recent upticks in infections. North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin have led the country for weeks in the number of new cases relative to their populations, and Iowa recently shot up, too.
Here are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic.
In other developments:
■ Queen Elizabeth II of England was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time on Wednesday at a private ceremony during the prelude to Remembrance Sunday.
■ A Cambodian province is closing schools that had just reopened, seeking to prevent any possible spread of the virus after Hungary’s prime minister tested positive immediately after a visit last week. Prime Minister Hun Sen and other officials who met with the Hungarian leader are in quarantine.
■ The mutation of the coronavirus in mink, which has caused Denmark to order the killing of all farmed mink, has sharpened “the worry among scientists that the pathogen could spread to other wild and domestic animals”.
The New York Times