Slowly, many areas in US are getting affected by the coronavirus. After breaking Covid-19 protocols in the spring and enjoying summer, states in the U.S. Northeast are now seeing a stimulate in infections, with New York recording nearly 10,000 new cases last week. Compared with the previous seven days, new cases in New York rose 102% in the week ended Oct. 4, while new cases in Connecticut rose 61% to 1,710 and new cases in New Jersey rose 23% to 4,650, according to an analysis of state and country reports by leading daily.
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Still, the portion of tests in the Northeast that were turning out positive for the novel coronavirus remains very less, essentially in the 1%-2% range. The Midwest continues to deal with the highest number of new cases per capita, with North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin reporting the largest number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks. Health officials have for a long time said that they were worried that colder weather -- which is now hitting the Midwest and Northeast -- would further surge in outbreaks as more activities move indoors.
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Nationally, over 300,000 Americans have till now tested positive for the novel coronavirus last week, down 4% from the prior week, as total cases in the country approach 7.5 million. Some of the national decreases was due to Texas, which two weeks ago reported thousands of backlogged cases. New cases have risen for at least two weeks in a row in 21 states, though deaths from Covid-19 have generally declined for the past seven weeks. Still, more than 5,000 lives were lost last week, and deaths are a lagging indicator that generally rises weeks after a surge in cases.
