Health care workers test a person for Covid-19 at a popup testing site in Florida. Photo: Getty Images/AFP Health care workers test a person for Covid-19 at a popup testing site in Florida. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Health care workers test a person for Covid-19 at a popup testing site in Florida. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Coronavirus US
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Coronavirus latest: US coronavirus cases pass 4 million in rapid acceleration

  • It took country 98 days to reach 1 million infections, but just 16 days to go from 3 million to 4 million
  • Average number of new US cases now rising by more than 2,600 every hour, the highest rate in the world

Topic |   Coronavirus US
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Updated: 9:13pm, 13 Oct, 2020

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Health care workers test a person for Covid-19 at a popup testing site in Florida. Photo: Getty Images/AFP Health care workers test a person for Covid-19 at a popup testing site in Florida. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Health care workers test a person for Covid-19 at a popup testing site in Florida. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
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