The United States reaches a historic number by recording on Monday, January 3, more than one million new cases of Covid-19 in a single day. You read that right. One million new Covid-19 infected in a single day, advances Johhns Hopkins University, quoted by Lusa news agency.
Bad start to the year for North Americans as far as fighting Covid-19 is concerned. In fact, the scenario is reminiscent of what this country experienced in the early months of last year, where the number of those infected and killed by Covid-19 was somewhat frightening.
Figures presented yesterday by the University cited in the text, indicate that 1.06 million Americans tested positive for the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus on Monday, at a time when the country is facing a fifth wave of covid-19, fueled by the Ómicron variant.
Furthermore, the data made public so far by international organizations also show that North Americans lead the world in the average daily number of new deaths, accounting for one out of every five deaths recorded each day.
Since the start of the pandemic, the United States has counted 56,280,742 cases of infection and 830,349 covid-19 related deaths.
Anthony Fauci, White House advisor on the health crisis, says the rise in the number of covid-19 cases in the United States follows an "almost vertical" curve.
The high number of people infected, in most US states, is causing many companies to return to telecommuting, something that had already been abandoned by 2021.
The US economic capital, which was one of the epicenters of the pandemic in the first wave in March 2020, now records record levels of contagions (85,000 on Saturday) and a clear increase in hospitalizations 9,500
Faced with this situation, a good number of private companies have ordered their employees to start working remotely, at least during this first week after the end-of-year festivities.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in several countries.