{"id":17479,"date":"2020-10-31T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17479"},"modified":"2020-10-31T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:48:09","slug":"9m-coronavirus-cases-reported-ahead-of-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17479","title":{"rendered":"9M coronavirus cases reported ahead of Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US surpassed Friday nine million confirmed coronavirus cases as Americans prepare for Election Day in the middle of a soaring pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A Johns Hopkins University study found 9,007,298 COVID-19 infections in the US since the outbreak began, as well as 229,293 fatalities, the highest number of cases and deaths in any country worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The US recorded 971 COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday, according to the university&#8217;s data. The figure is down from records of over 2,000 daily deaths in April, but remains high as the number of daily cases break all-time records.<\/p>\n<p>The country reported 88,521 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, an increase of 9,540 from the previous day, the data showed \u2013 a rate of about one new case per second, according to analyses.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths typically lag behind new infections.<\/p>\n<p>With the Nov. 3 general election happening in the middle of a worsening pandemic, millions of Americans have opted to either vote by mail or vote early in order to avoid crowded indoor spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Over 85 million people have already voted, with some states recording turnout that has eclipsed the number seen in 2016, according to data being compiled by the US Elections Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON The US surpassed Friday nine million confirmed coronavirus cases as Americans prepare for Election Day in the middle of a soaring pandemic. A Johns Hopkins University study found 9,007,298 COVID-19 infections in the US since the outbreak began, as well as 229,293 fatalities, the highest number of cases and deaths in any country worldwide. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17480,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions\/17480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}