Texas has seen a steady increase in the number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus, two weeks after the state reopened its economy, ABC News reports.
While some states have extended their social distancing orders while waiting to see how the spread of the coronavirus pandemic plays out, Texas was one of several others that has been bullish on reopening. And since reopening, the number of confirmed cases in the state has risen.
Specifically, the state now has 45,198 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. That’s an increase of 1,347 cases from Thursday to Friday. By comparison, last week the daily increase in cases between Thursday and Friday was 1,219.
The number of new cases to have been confirmed between Friday and Saturday is not available, as of this writing.
By comparison, New York, which has been the epicenter of the virus in the U.S. for several weeks, has had 345,000 confirmed cases.
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