NEW YORK: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the United States topped 40 million on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), according to data from Johns Hopkins University. US Covid-19 case count rose to 40,003,101 with a total of 648,935 deaths as of 3:21 p.m. in New York on September 6 (4:21 a.m. in Manila, September 7), showed the data. California topped the state-level caseload list with 4,421,247 cases. Texas confirmed the second most cases of 3,706,980 followed by Florida with 3,352,451 cases; New York with 2,304,955 cases; and Illinois with more than 1.5 million cases. Other states with over 1 million cases include Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, Michigan and Arizona, according to the university's tally. The United States remains the nation worst hit by the pandemic - with the world's most cases and deaths - making up more than 18 percent of the global caseload and nearly 14 percent of the global deaths.
