US passes 20M COVID-19 cases as 2021 begins

Published January 1, 2021 7:48pm ET



The United States has surpassed 20 million cases of the coronavirus.

The country eclipsed the grim milestone on Jan. 1, according to the Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus tracker. That total is nearly double the number of India’s cases, which has the second-most globally. Aside from the U.S. and India, only Brazil, with 7.6 million cases, has eclipsed 4 million COVID-19 diagnoses since the pandemic began.

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