HOUSTON: The spread of the coronavirus surged unabated in hot spots around the United States on Thursday (Friday in Manila), with one city in South Carolina urging people to pray it into submission, a hospital in Texas bringing in military medical personnel and funeral morgues running out of space in Phoenix.

Record numbers of cases and deaths were popping up throughout the country. Texas reported 129 new deaths Thursday, and a third of the more than 3,400 coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) fatalities registered there since the pandemic began were reported in the first two weeks of July alone.

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