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US hits 5 million COVID-19 cases: Johns Hopkins tally
The US tally reached 5,000,603 cases on Sunday morning and 162,441 deaths - both totals by far the highest of any country in the world.
The Baltimore-based school, which has been keeping a running tally of global coronavirus numbers, said there are at least 347,003 confirmed infections in the US with 10,335 deaths.
The US death toll is lower than those of Italy and Spain but above the 3,316 recorded for China, where the pandemic first emerged in December.
The surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore performed the operation on Monday, calling it the first in the world of its kind.