BREAKING NEWS

US CDC reports 249,670 deaths from coronavirus

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 11,465,722 cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of 165,087 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 1,836 to 249,670.

The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, as of 4 pm ET on Nov. 18 versus its previous report a day earlier.

The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.