Florida Alone Just Exceeded the Entire U.K. in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

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By Meghan Roos On 7/15/20 at 3:42 PM EDT


Health officials in Florida reported on Wednesday that more than 10,000 additional residents had tested positive for the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the state's total to 301,810.

The state now has more virus cases than the 291,911 reported in the entire United Kingdom, a statistic only two other U.S. states—California and New York—reached in mid-July. Though the states' case numbers are higher, their combined number of virus deaths is still thousands below that in the U.K., which had reported 45,053 deaths as of Wednesday.

According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, the number of cases in Florida also exceeds those in all countries except Brazil, India, Russia, Peru, Chile and Mexico. The U.S. has more virus cases than any other country in the world, with more than 3.4 million reported by Wednesday.

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