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US sets global record of over 1 million COVID-19 cases in a day

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="People line up for a COVID-19 test at a hospital, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, US, January 3, 2022. Carlo Allegri, Reuters" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/reuters/01/04/20220104_health-coronavirus-new-york.jpg"/><figcaption>People line up for a COVID-19 test at a hospital, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, US, January 3, 2022. <em>Carlo Allegri, Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>WASHINGTON — The United States recorded more than one million COVID-19 cases on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as the Omicron variant spread at a blistering pace.</p><p>There were 1,080,211 new cases in the country, a global record, with the number of cases doubling the previous week. </p><p>It comes a day after top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci said the country was experiencing &quot;almost a vertical increase&quot; in COVID-19 cases, adding the peak may be only weeks away.</p><p>The heavily mutated Omicron strain — the most transmissible to date — accounted for around 59 percent of national US cases in the week ending December 25, according to government modeling.</p><p>Fauci said the experience of South Africa — where the strain was first detected in late November and peaked quickly, then subsided nearly as speedily — offered some hope.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/01/03/22/omicron-evades-immunity-better-than-delta-study">Omicron evades immunity better than Delta, Danish study finds</a></li></ul><p>Rates of death and hospitalization in the US have been far lower in recent weeks than during previous COVID surges.</p><p>With 9,382 deaths over the past seven days, the nation&#x27;s death toll has fallen by 10 percent, week on week.</p><p>In the last seven days, the country has recorded 3.4 million cases at an average of 486,000 per day with a peak on January 3, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.</p><p>The US record during previous waves was 258,000 cases per day, for the week of January 5 to 11, 2021. </p><p>Officials have struggled to find a balance that will protect public health without gravely damaging the economy or slamming key services like policing and air travel.</p><p>Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention halved the isolation period for asymptomatic COVID cases to five days, in a bid to blunt mass Omicron-induced disruption as infections hit new highs in multiple US states.</p><p>And on Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer&#x27;s COVID-19 booster shot for children as young as 12 ahead of the reopening of schools following the holiday break.</p><p>COVID-19 has killed at least 5,441,446 people globally since the outbreak emerged in December 2019, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources on Monday.</p><p>Taking into account excess mortality linked to COVID-19, the World Health Organization estimates the overall death toll could be two to three times higher.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nesct-BC2T0?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

There were 1,080,211 new cases in the country, a global record, with the number of cases doubling the previous week. 