Concerns to Australia to open schools for 2022 as In US records more than 1 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States in a single day as a tsunami of Omicron swamps every aspect of daily American life.
The highly mutated variant drove cases to a record 1,083,948 – the most by a large margin that any country has ever reported. Monday’s number, available on Tuesday AEDT, is almost double the previous record of about 590,000 set just four days ago, which itself was a doubling from the prior week.
It is also more than twice the case count seen anywhere else at any time since the pandemic began more than two years ago. The highest number outside the US came during India’s Delta surge, when more than 414,000 people were diagnosed on May 7, 2021.
The stratospheric numbers come even as many Americans are relying on tests they take at home, with results that aren’t reported to official government authorities. That means the record is surely a significant under-estimate.
While surging cases haven’t yet translated into severe infections and skyrocketing deaths, their impact has been felt across the country as the newly infected isolate at home. The results are cancelled flights, closed schools and offices, overwhelmed hospitals and strangled supply chains.
The data from Johns Hopkins University is complete as of midnight eastern time in Baltimore, US, and delays in reporting over the holidays may have played a role in the rising rates.
US
56,190,946 Total confirmed cases
New cases today: 1,083,948 (+335.96%)
Avg. daily cases in past week: 480,473 (+19.11%)
NovDecJan500k1MNew cases7-day-average
827,753 Total deaths
New deaths today: 1,693 (+593.85%)
Avg. daily deaths in past week: 1,236 (-0.85%)
NovDecJan1k2k3kNew deaths7-day-averageSource: Johns Hopkins UniversityUpdate: 3 Jan 2022
Interactive: REGINAL SENGKEY, MARK STEHLE
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