The United States recorded over a million cases of COVID-19 in a day, a world record since the start of the pandemic.

The United States on Monday recorded more than one million cases of the coronavirus, a daily number not recorded anywhere else in the world during the pandemic.According to the Johns Hopkins University balance.

Specifically, the registered country 1,080,211 new cases on 3 January,

At a time when Omicron Edition is giving tough competition to the country, the university also recorded 1,688 deaths in 24 hours, a day later Anthony FauciIn this epidemic, the Chief Adviser of the Government announced that The rise in COVID-19 cases in the United States was “almost vertical”,

The Omicron variant, which is by far the most contagious, accounted for about 59% of the positives recorded in the United States in the week ending December 25.According to government figures.

Fauci said that the case of south africa, where this type was first detected in late November and cases were skyrocketing at the same rate that they had dropped within a few weeks. some hope,

Mortality and hospitalization rates in the United States have been much lower in this wave than in the previous ones.

country registered 9,382 deaths from COVID-19 in last seven days, 10% less than last week.

The country registered in the last seven days 3.4 million cases, an average of 486,000 per dayAccording to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The previous record for daily cases in the United States was 258,000, arrived in the week of January 5 to January 11, 2021.

(with information from AFP)

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