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US Coronavirus Cases Soar by Nearly 45,000 in 1 Day, CDC Says

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   The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday
   reported 44,602 new confirmed cases of coronavirus since Friday, making
   a total of 2,459,472 cases, and said the number of deaths had risen by
   651 to 124,976.

   The U.S. states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Nevada reported
   new single-day records Saturday of new coronavirus infections,
   highlighting the disease's spread in several Southern and Western
   states.

   Coronavirus cases are also surging in the south-central U.S. state of
   Texas, where more than 5,700 new cases were reported Saturday, and 42
   more deaths brought the state's total to nearly 2,400. The state's
   governor, Greg Abbott, has again scaled back restaurant dining and shut
   bars.

   "If I could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to
   slow down the opening of bars, now seeing in the aftermath of how
   quickly the coronavirus spread in the bar setting," Abbott said in an
   interview Friday evening on KVIA television in the city of El Paso.

   Vice President Mike Pence will go ahead with a campaign event Sunday in
   Dallas, Texas, where he will attend a "Celebrate Freedom Rally" at
   First Baptist Church Dallas and then meet with Abbott.

   Pence has canceled similar events in Tucson, Arizona, and Florida. At a
   briefing by the White House's coronavirus task force Friday, the vice
   president said he would be visiting the three states for a "ground
   report" on the spiking cases. The coronavirus task force public
   briefing was the first in nearly two months; the president did not
   attend.

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