The US just topped more than 7 million coronavirus cases

The US just topped more than 7 million coronavirus cases as 23 states report rising numbers

The United States reached another grim milestone on Friday, surpassing 7 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. 

It was January 22 when the first case of Covid-19 was recorded by Johns Hopkins. Now, eight months and more than 203,000 deaths later, the US has 7,015,242 cases. 

Here's how long it took the country to reach this point: 

It took 98 days to hit 1 million cases on April 28.

It took just 15 more days for the US to hit 4 million cases on July 23. 

After another 17 days, the US hit 5 million cases on August 9. 

 It took 22 days to hit 6 million cases on August 31. 

And it took 25 more days to hit 7 million cases on Friday, September 25.

Only three other countries in the world have reported more than 1 million Covid-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins: India with more than 5.8 million, Brazil with more than 4.6 million and Russia with more than 1.1 million.

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