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U.S. CDC reports 214,446 deaths from coronavirus – Metro US

U.S. CDC reports 214,446 deaths from coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: People walk in at Memorial West in Pembroke
FILE PHOTO: People walk in at Memorial West in Pembroke Pines

(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 7,787,548 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 46,614 from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 338 to 214,446.

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 Oct. 12 versus its previous report a day earlier.(https://bit.ly/2SP2YJp)

The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.

(Reporting by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)