INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
infections reported on Friday to an ominous new daily world record of 100,000, four days before the U.S
with almost 229,000 dead since the outbreak of the pandemic early this year, according to a Reuters tally of publicly reported data.With the
country facing the final stretch of a tumultuous presidential campaign dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, U.S
set a new single-day record in U.S
infections continued as data trickled in on Friday, with at least a dozen states individually reporting a record number of new daily
cases.Serious cases of COVID-19 were on the rise as well, as hospitals in six states reported having the most patients suffering from the
disease since the pandemic started
states are those most hotly contested in the campaign between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, such as
Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.More than 1,000 people died of the virus on Thursday, the third time the daily
death toll had exceeded that number this month, and the pace of fatalities is expected to continue rising
holding at a monthly pace of just over 22,000 for most of October, will start climbing next month toward a new record of more than 72,000 in
non-essential businesses, as infections rise and hospital capacity is stretched.Mayor Dee Margo, noting that he had already reduced the
executive, Judge Ricardo Samaniego, said in a statement that he was pursuing legal options to enforce his two-week shutdown order.Trump has
He maintained his upbeat tone in a tweet on Friday, saying the country was doing much better than Europe had in confronting the
it said.The 71-page interim report by Democratic staff of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis also said investigators
early October, Trump resumed the large campaign rallies that draw thousands of supporters packed together, many not wearing masks
The Trump campaign says the rallies are safe and that masks and social distancing are encouraged.A CNN investigation found that 14 out of 17
