Washington: The United States recorded speedily spreading Covid- 19 cases in the country on Friday. In US the fatalities recorded 2, 108 in a day, as per the tally of Johns Hopkins University.

The US has now recorded 18,586 deaths and is closing in on the toll of 18,849 dead in Italy, which has seen the most fatalities so far in the global pandemic. America is also approaching half a million confirmed cases of Covid- 19, with 496,535 as of 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Saturday), an increase of 35,098 in the past 24 hours.