The United States on Thursday set yet another record for new coronavirus cases with 68,428 infections recorded in 24 hours, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. In that period the death toll also climbed by 974 people, the Baltimore-based university's tracker showed at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Friday). That brought the total death toll in the country since the pandemic began to 138,201, and the total number of cases to 3,560,364. leo/sdu/st/acb