United States leads in confirmed Coronavirus cases

United States now leads the world in confirmed Coronavirus cases. The number of COVID-19 cases in the US topped 70,000 as of 1.45 pm, US Eastern Time on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
In the past 24 hrs over 17,000 cases of Coronavirus have been reported in the United States and 266 have died of the disease.