Cases have ticking upward in at least 17 U.S. states in the past two weeks, according to tracking from DataUSA.io. States like Michigan where more than 50 percent of cases are caused by the UK variant are seeing cases climb, while fully-reopened Texas with just 42 percent of cases caused by the variant continues to see declines. Texas has seen continued declines in its number of daily Covid-19 cases, despite fully reopening. Meanwhile, Texas has seen its average daily cases decline by 12 percent in the same span of time. After nearly tripling in a month to the latest peak of 7,870 daily average cases on April 10, daily infections are now down by 18 percent to 6458 a day in Michigan.

Source: The Nation April 20, 2021 16:52 UTC