US records nearly half of a million COVID-19 cases in weekly
In America nearly half a million persons have contracted coronavirus in the last seven days, on Tuesday the united states recorded 66,784 new cases.
Besides, 477 new deaths were also reported, according to data published by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
The US, the hardest-hit country, has recorded 5,600 deaths during the past week.
Deaths each day from coronavirus in America are increasing again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in practically every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great,” reports AP.
In line with the JHU data, Los Angeles reported 300,614 cases till Wednesday morning with 7,000 deaths while 182,523 cases reported from Miami-Dade with 3,615 fatalities.
Los Angeles recorded the highest death toll in the united states accompanied by Queens, Kings, Cook, Bronx.
Besides, practically 800,000 children in the US have been identified as having COVID-19 because the onset of the pandemic, according to a fresh report of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association, reports Xinhua.
A total of 94,555 new child cases were reported from Oct 8 to Oct 22, which was a 14 percent upsurge in child cases over fourteen days, based on the report.
Altogether 792,188 child COVID-19 cases have been reported in the United States, and children represented 11 percent of most those infected, said the report.
The entire rate was 1,053 cases per 100,000 children in the populace. Children accounted for 1 percent to 3.6 percent of total reported hospitalisations, and 0 to 0.23 percent of most COVID-19 deaths, in line with the report.
A smaller subset of states reported on hospitalisations and mortality by age, but the available data indicated that COVID-19-associated hospitalisation and death is uncommon in children, said the report.
"At this time, it appears that severe illness because of COVID-19 is rare among children. However, states should continue steadily to provide detailed reports on COVID-19 cases, testing, hospitalizations, and mortality by age and race/ethnicity to ensure that the effects of COVID-19 on children's health could be documented and monitored," said the report
The first case of COVID-19 in America was reported 278 days ago on January 22.
Coronavirus has infected more than 43.8 million persons globally by Wednesday, according to JHU.
The data implies that the full total caseload reached 43,895,968 with 1,165,455 fatalities around the world.
