(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 7,129,313 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 33,891 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 270 to 204,598.
The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, as of 4 p.m. ET on Sept. 28, compared with its previous report a day earlier. (https://bit.ly/33XxDcR)
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
(Reporting By Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)
