This archive report was first published on 12 June 2020.
Published on June 12, 2020, the United States has recorded another 941 coronavirus-related fatalities in the last 24 hours, bringing the country's death toll to 113,774, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The US is the most affected by the pandemic in absolute terms, with both the highest number of deaths and the largest number of infections, with 2,021,990 cases at 8:30 pm Thursday (0030 GMT Friday), a tracker maintained by the Baltimore-based university showed.
Despite struggling to come down from a plateau of around 20,000 new cases each day, the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has stated that there will be no more shutdowns, even as the outbreak flares in some states.
"We can't shut down the economy. I think we've learned that if you shut down the economy, you're going to create more damage," Mnuchin said in an interview on CNBC.
