Coronavirus updates: United States tops 100,000 new coronavirus cases in a day for first time

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ere are some significant developments:

• The United States reported more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, according to data tracked by The Washington Post. Seventeen states including Kansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma, Montana, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana and West Virginia — on Wednesday reported record numbers of patients hospitalized with covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
• Nationwide, more than 9,445,000 coronavirus cases and more than 232,500 fatalities have been logged since February.
• European countries such as England, Italy and Greece have announced new restrictions, including partial or total lockdowns as they face a sweeping second wave of infections.
• Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, urged Americans to wear masks in the winter, arguing it could save up to 130,000 lives.
• Denmark wants to cull all minks in Danish farms, to minimize the risk of them retransmitting the coronavirus to humans.
• Coronavirus cases in American children increased by record numbers in the last week of October, according to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
• A top scientist involved in the development of Oxford University’s vaccine candidate said there is “a small chance” that the vaccine could become available by late December, according to Reuters.