The United States reported 1.08 million new Covid-19 cases on Monday, a record single day rise in cases for any country since the start of the Pandemic.
A woman is getting a Covid-19 test at a testing center next to a hospital.
Anadolu Agency.
The previous single-day record of more than 585,000 was set on December 30.
Delays in reporting due to the holidays caused the steep single-day rise in cases.
New York state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, New Jersey, Delaware and Florida have the highest rates of infections with more than 200 new cases per 100,000 people.
The CDC recently shortened its isolation guidelines to five days for people who are not showing symptoms.
After five days, the agency may recommend a negative test.
The fast-spreading variant is forcing large-scale flight cancelations and a return to remote learning for schools and colleges because federal government officials have been reluctant to impose any stringent restrictions.
1,343. According to JHU data, the current seven-day average of daily deaths due to Covid-19 in the U.S. is. While omicron has not led to an equivalent surge in the number of deaths, daily death counts in the U.S. are still at a high number.
The U.S. has seen an unprecedented surge in new Covid-19 infections with the average daily number now nearly 480,000. Thousands of Americans who are testing positive at home using rapid antigen tests are not included in this count. The steep increase in cases has not been followed by a rise in hospitalization numbers. More than 100,000 hospital beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients, up from around 60,000 last month, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The variant's highly contagious nature means that more health care workers may get infections and be forced to isolation, leading to further strain on hospitals. 34% of the country's eligible population has not yet been fully vaccined, and the country's top infectious diseases official warns that unvaccinated people still remain at risk.
There are more than 100,000 hospitalized in the U.S.
The U.S. has a daily record of over 1 million cases of the disease.
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