US passes 20M COVID-19 cases as 2021 begins

By Mike Brest

Published January 1, 2021 7:48pm ET

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US passes 20M COVID-19 cases as 2021 begins — Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic. | (Vahid Salemi/AP)

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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