U.S. reports record-high COVID-19 cases and deaths; global death toll at over 1.5 mil.

미, 코로나 하루확진 21만명…세계 코로나 사망 150만명The United States continues to see record high daily numbers of COVID-19 cases.According to data released by Johns Hopkins University, the country recorded over 210-thousand new cases on Thursday.The death toll also set yet another grim milestone with almost 29-hundred new deaths.With that, the global death toll has now reached over one-point-five million.Europe is also on high alert following a surge in virus cases.Reporting nearly a thousand new cases on Thursday alone, Italy has imposed travel restrictions between cities for more than two weeks from December 21st.Japan also confirmed more than two-thousand new cases for nine straight days on Saturday.