WASHINGTON: The United States recorded 1,169 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the Johns Hopkins University tracker showed on Thursday (Apr 2), the highest one-day death toll recorded in any country since the global pandemic began.
The toll reflected figures reported by the university between 8.30pm on Wednesday and the same time on Thursday. Advertisement Advertisement The grim record was previously held by Italy, where 969 people died on Mar 27.