U.S. surpasses 10 million virus cases in sobering milestone

BALTIMORE, Maryland -- The United States passed the sobering total of 10 million coronavirus infections on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally.

There have been at least 10,018,278 cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. and more than 237,000 has died from the virus.

So far Monday, Johns Hopkins had reported 50,123 new cases and 172 added deaths. The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other U.S. territories, as well as repatriated cases. 

This is the fastest the United States has added one million new cases since the pandemic began. 

JHU recorded the first case of coronavirus in the United States on January 21. 

• 98 days later, on April 28, the US hit 1 million cases
• 44 days later, on June 11, the US hit 2 million cases
• 27 days later, on July 8, the US hit 3 million cases
• 15 days later, on July 23, the US hit 4 million cases
• 17 days later, on August 9, the US hit 5 million cases
• 22 days later, on August 31, the US hit 6 million cases
• 25 days later, on September 25, the US hit 7 million cases
• 21 days later on October 16, the US hit 8 million cases
• 14 days later, on October 30, the US hit 9 million cases
• 10 days later, on November 9, the US hit 10 million cases

 Eight other countries in the world have reported over 1 million total Covid-19 cases:

• India has over 8 million total cases
• Brazil has over 5 million total cases
• Russia, France, Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom, and Colombia each have over 1 million total cases