The US has recorded 1,015 new deaths linked to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the lowest daily number in a month. Overall, 68,920 people have died with the virus.
There have been 1,180,332 confirmed infections in the US, more than five times the number of cases that Spain has and more than 14 times the number of cases in China where the outbreak started at the end of 2019.
Fewer than 200,000 of those infected have so far recovered.
An internal US government document projects a sharp rise in coronavirus infections and a surge in daily deaths by 1 June, the New York Times reported on Monday. The projections foresee around 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month and a daily death toll of about 3,000.