US tops one million coronavirus cases: Johns Hopkins — People practice social distancing amidst the coronavirus pandemic at Brooklyn Bridge Park on April 28, 2020 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. The World Health Organization declared coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic on March 11th. Al Bello/Getty Images/AFP/ AL BELLO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the United States topped one million on Tuesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

The pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 57,000 people in the US, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections with 1,002,498, according to the Baltimore-based school’s latest count.

The latest numbers come as the COVID-19 epidemic appears to be easing in hotspots like New York while other states move to reopen their economies — even though case and death rates continue to rise in some places.

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