ROME: The confirmed number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the United States reached 5 million on Sunday, by far the highest in the world, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

However, health officials believe that for every reported case, there are roughly 10 times as many people infected, given the limits on testing and the large number of mild infections that have unreported or unrecognized.

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