On Monday, the US broke a single-day record with more than 1 million COVID-19 cases amid the rapid spread of the Omicron variant and government decisions to ease precautionary measures. and control in this country.
More than 103,000 Americans have been hospitalized with COVID-19, the highest number since late summer when the Delta variant of the coronavirus caused a nationwide spike in cases.
This number reflects a 27% increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States over the past week. The Xinhua News Agency reported that the average daily deaths from COVID-19 fell by 8%.
Anthony Fauci, the US President’s chief medical adviser, told ABC’s “This Week”.
The worst day of the pandemic for hospitalization was January 14, 2021, with more than 142,000 people.
So far, the US is still the country most affected by the pandemic, with the highest number of cases and deaths in the world.
It is entering the third year of the coronavirus pandemic with the extremely contagious Omicron variant poised to cause a firestorm to infect the Southeast after exploding through the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
“Lower vaccination rates and fewer masks and vaccines have created a vastly different environment for Omicron variants to spread in the South, leaving experts uncertain whether outbreaks of development ends faster in the North or not”.
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi are among the states with the biggest increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations since Christmas, and “the situation may only get worse, as the initial outbreaks in the urban areas spread to less immunized rural areas,” it said.
Georgia has broken multiple records, with nearly 1 in 3 testing positive in the last week of December, and in the coastal city of Atlanta, nearly half of all testing positive. Daily new infections in Florida have averaged around 43,000, well above the peak of 23,000 reached during the summer Delta variant spike.
Source: IANS
