US sees over 50,000 new Covid-19 cases for third straight day as holiday begins

The US reported at least 51,842 new coronavirus cases on Friday, a third day straight with a high of more than 50,000 as the 4 July holiday weekend began. On Saturday one of the worst-hit states, Florida, said confirmed cases there had risen by a record 11,458, the second time in three days the caseload had gone up by more than 10,000. Nonetheless, Donald Trump used his Fourth of July message to the nation to claim the US was “on [the] way to a…