On December 20, Reuters reported, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the US had recorded more than 400,000 new coronavirus infections in just 24 hours.
Specifically, states in the United States recorded a total of 403,359 cases of Covid-19 on Friday alone, an unprecedented increase since the outbreak started earlier this year. The largest previous record increase reported by the CDC was on December 11 with 244,011 new Covid-19 infections.
It is known that, accordingly, there were also 2,756 additional deaths caused by Covid-19 throughout the United States. According to the Covid-19 epidemic monitoring statistics here, more than 114,750 Americans are currently hospitalized for treatment.
The United States is currently the country with the highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, with 17.6 million people infected. There have been a total of over 315,600 deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 virus in this country.