1st LD Writethru: U.S. COVID-19 cases surpass 26 mln -- Johns Hopkins University

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 26 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

U.S. COVID-19 case count rose to 26,012,880, with a total of 438,239 deaths, as of 2:22 p.m. local time (1922 GMT), according to the CSSE tally.