The United States lifts travel restrictions from 89 countries, with more than 20,000 new confirmed cases

On the 18th local time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) withdrew the travel restriction order for 89 countries from the list of “no travel” countries.

The CDC classifies the risk level into 4 based on the incidence rate of each country (the number of new cases per 100,000 people per day), and the countries with the highest risk level 4 are restricted from travel, and their morbidity The rate is calculated as more than 500 new cases recorded per 100,000 people per day over the past 28 days.

The cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States exceeds 80.67 million

On the 18th local time, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), as of the 17th Eastern Time At 20:20 (5:20 a.m. on April 19, Beijing time), a total of 80,673,913 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States and a total of 988,850 deaths.

Compared with 24 hours ago, there were 46,368 new confirmed cases and 233 new deaths.

The number of new confirmed cases in the United States has increased by more than 20,000, and the number of new cases in 32 states in the United States has risen again

According to the real-time statistics of Worldometer, as of 6:00 on April 19, 2022 Beijing time At about 30 minutes, a total of 82,337,495 confirmed new coronary pneumonia cases and 1,015,451 deaths in the United States; compared with the data at about 6:30 the previous day, there were 22,859 new confirmed cases and 59 new deaths in the United States.

According to a report on the US Forbes website on the 17th, due to the spread of the new coronavirus variant strain, the number of new cases in 32 states in the United States has risen again in the past two weeks.

Michigan saw a 145% increase in new cases, currently the largest increase of any state in the United States.

Over the past month, the highly contagious Omicron strain subtype BA.2 has become the predominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.