Texas is the first US state to exceed the threshold of one million confirmed corona infections. Over 1,003,000 cases were counted there by Saturday. This is followed by California with around 967,600 detected infections. Worldwide, only nine countries have more cases of infection than Texas, which has 29 million inhabitants and more than ten percent of all infections in the USA. With over 9.8 million infections and more than 230,000 deaths, the US remains the hardest hit country in the world by the pandemic.