Austin-Travis County EMS transport a nursing home resident with
coronavirus symptoms on August 03, 2020 in Austin, Texas. John
Moore/Getty Images/AFP
More than 120,000 coronavirus cases were reported in the
US in the past 24 hours, smashing a daily record set the day
before, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins
University.
The country reported 123,085 new infections between 8:30 pm
Wednesday and 8:30 pm Thursday (0130 GMT), and 1,226 more deaths,
the tally by the Baltimore-based school showed.
On Wednesday, 99,660 new cases of the virus were reported.
Thursday’s tally shatters that record by 23,425 cases.
While deaths remain lower than their worst levels in the spring,
Thursday was also the third day in a row that fatalities were above
1,000. The last time people were dying at that rate of Covid-19 in
the US was early September.
More than 9.6 million people have been infected and 234,000 have
died in the United States so far during the pandemic, by far the
highest tolls in absolute terms globally.
The new record comes as US President Donald Trump, who survived
a bout with Covid-19 in October and insists the virus will
“disappear,” was fighting for his political life Thursday with
vote-counting from Tuesday’s presidential election still
ongoing.
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His Democratic election rival Joe Biden has sought to turn the
vote into a referendum on Trump’s handling of the crisis, and vowed
to listen to scientific recommendations on handling the pandemic
should he take the White House.
With coronavirus cases surging across the country since
mid-October, more than 100 million voters cast their ballot by mail
or in person before Election Day — the highest number of early
voters ever — as many Americans sought to avoid crowded polling
booths.
Trump gives the thumbs-up as he leaves Walter Reed Medical Center
in Bethesda, Maryland heading towards Marine One on October 5,
2020, to return to the White House after being discharged. (Photo
by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
The final election results have been partly delayed by the high
number of mail-in ballots, which Trump alleges without evidence are
fraudulent.
Health officials in some states have already sounded warnings
about their ability to handle an influx in hospitalizations as the
winter flu season looms.
The pandemic has also slammed the US economy, fueling a historic
contraction in growth and tens of millions of job losses.
AFP
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