US suffers record-high daily cases, deaths, hospitalizations

Washington, Jan 8 : The US witnessed another grim milestone on Wednesday amid the chaos at the Capitol, with the country’s daily Covid-19 cases, deaths as well as total hospitalisations all set new world records over the course of the pandemic.
A total of 2,99,904 new cases and 3,844 deaths were reported across the nation on Wednesday, according to data updated on Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Both figures are the highest daily counts since the onset of the pandemic in the country, the Xinhua news agency reported.
This brought the 7-day average daily increase of cases to a record-high of over 2,28,000.
The country reported Covid-19 hospitalisations at over 1,32,400 cases as of Wednesday, which also set a new record, according to The Covid Tracking Project.
Hospitalisations in the South and West are now worse than the Midwest’s peak, with four states in the South seeing record Covid-19 hospitalisations this week, according to the project.