Peter Wells in New York
The US continues to reach new milestones in the coronavirus pandemic, with states reporting more than 1m new cases over the past week for the first time.
A record of nearly 1.02m infections were reported by states in the past seven days, according to Financial Times analysis of Covid Tracking Project on Sunday.
Putting that in perspective, the seven-day tally in the US is more than the overall number of cases confirmed in Mexico, which on Sunday became the 11th country to top 1m infections since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
On Sunday, the US reported a further 139,109 cases, the fewest in five days, but taking the total number of infections in the country since the start of the pandemic to about 10.9m as of Sunday, according to Covid Tracking Project. Johns Hopkins University’s tally crossed…