In language that served as an implicit repudiation of President Donald Trump, he urged Americans to come together to fight the virus. Deaths are also rising fast, with more than 2,200 announced nationwide Tuesday, the most on a single day since early May. The spread of the virus rages on in the Great Plains and the Upper Midwest. And in Illinois, which has averaged more than 10,000 cases per day, infection numbers have also levelled off, especially around Chicago. “Thanksgiving hasn’t happened yet,” Dr Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said this week.

Source: bd News24 November 26, 2020 11:13 UTC