US COVID-19 cases exceed 16 mln
US COVID-19 caseload reached to 16,014,839, with 297,501 fatalities, by 2126 GMT, in line with the CSSE tally.
California reported the most cases among the states, standing at 1,535,962. Texas registered 1,395,889 cases, accompanied by Florida with 1,116,973 cases. Illinois recorded 841,688 cases and New York discovered 764,966 cases.
Other states with more than 420,000 cases include Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Tennessee and NEW YORK, the CSSE data showed.
By far, the US remains the country worst-hit simply by the pandemic, with the world's most cases and deaths, creating a lot more than 22 percent of the global caseload.
US COVID-19 cases hit 10 million on Nov 9, and increased by 5 million within per month. It took only four times for the case count to bounce from 15 million to 16 million.
Record amounts of cases, deaths as well as hospitalisations have already been repeatedly seen over the states in December.
The daily cases in the US reached 231,775 on Friday, the highest single-day upsurge in new cases the country has ever witnessed because the pandemic began, according to info published by Johns Hopkins University.
Friday likewise marked the 40th consecutive working day that the US had reported more than 100,000 daily cases since the beginning of November.
Meanwhile, the united states just experienced the deadliest day because the onset of the pandemic, with the national daily deaths surging to 3,309 about Friday, the CSSE chart showed.
Current hospitalisations in the US skyrocketed to an all-time most of 108,108 about Friday, in line with the COVID Tracking Project.
An updated model forecast by the Institute for Wellbeing Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington projected a complete of 502,256 COVID-19 deaths in the usa by April 1, 2021, predicated on current projection scenario.
Meanwhile, states found in the US will start receiving the initially batch of the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine from Monday morning, US officials said Saturday, following the government gave the ultimate nod to the shots necessary to end the outbreak which has killed almost 300,000 Americans.
