The United States recorded an all-time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections on Thursday, figures from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) show.
A recent surge in infections and hospitalisations has prompted the states of Texas, Florida and Arizona to pause reopening plans.
Texas’s governor ordered bars to close and announced other “targeted measures” on Friday to bring infections down.
Florida announced it was suspending alcohol consumption at its bars.
Health officials in the US estimate the true number of cases is likely to be 10 times higher than the reported figure.
Source: BBC.com
