Covid-19: United States tops three million cases

The United States on Wednesday passed another grim coronavirus (COVID-19) milestone with three million confirmed cases, as President Donald Trump aggressively pushed for schools to reopen.

The coronavirus is surging in several southern hotspots of the nation, including Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona, while it has almost entirely receded from its former epicentre in New York and the north-east.

Johns Hopkins University put the total of confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 3,009,611, in its real-time tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases.