(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 7,059,087 total COVID-19 cases, an increase of 49,871 infections from its previous count, and said the nation’s death toll had risen by 853 to 204,033.
The new CDC case tally is as of 4 pm ET (2000 GMT) on Sept. 26 versus its previous report a day earlier.(https://bit.ly/2FWikc8)
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
(Reporting by Radhika Anilkumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
