(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 325,096 deaths from the new coronavirus, an increase of 3,362 from its previous count.
The agency said the number of cases had risen by 221,408 to 18,391,571.
The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, as of 4 pm ET on Wednesday versus its previous report a day earlier. (http://bit.ly/33mTSJz)
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
