With election looming, a record surge of Covid-19 cases in the United States pushed hospitals closer to the verge of capacity and drove the number of infections reported on Friday to an alarmingly high daily world record of 100,000, four days before the U.S. presidential election. The United States also documented its 9 millionth case to date on Friday, representing nearly 3 percent of the population, with almost 2,29,000 dead since the outbreak of the pandemic early this year, according to a Reuters tally of publicly reported data.
With the country facing the final stretch of a tumultuous presidential campaign dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic, US health authorities on Friday also confirmed that 100,233 more people had tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.
Friday’s tally set a new single-day record in U.S. cases for the fifth time in the past 10 days, surpassing the previous peak of 91,248 new infections posted a day earlier. It also represented the world’s highest national daily toll during the pandemic, exceeding India’s 24-hour record of 97,894 set in September. The accelerating pace of U.S. infections continued as data trickled in on Friday, with at least a dozen states individually reporting a record number of new daily cases.
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