Washington, March 16 : The US has witnessed the lowest single-day increase of Covid-19 cases and deaths since last winter as vaccination efforts were accelerating across the nation.
A total of 40,428 new cases and 589 deaths were reported across the country on Sunday, according to data issued on Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The daily increase of new cases marked the lowest since October 6, 2020, while the new death count was the lowest since November 15, 2020, Xinhua news agency quoted the CDC as saying.
Currently, the country averages about 65,000 daily increase of cases and 1,200 deaths, the CDC data revealed.
Key Covid-19 indicators have continued to drop since January.
Since the highest seven-day average daily cases of 249,378 on January 11, the seven-day average increase of new cases decreased by 78.1 per cent, according to the CDC.
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