- United States register a new historical maximum of new infected. Yesterday, according to Johns Hopkins University, they were traced across the country 1.083.948 positive for Covid. The number exceeds by more than two times the previous record of 486.428, set just four days ago.
The surge in Covid is due to the variant Omicron, less lethal but decidedly more contagious than both the original strain and the previous most widespread variant, Delta.
According to the same institute, in the US the daily average of new infections over seven days increased to 480.273, the highest figure in the world.
Il average number of hospitalizations, on the other hand, has grown in the last week to 97.855 (data from the Department of Health), up 41% compared to the previous seven days, but still far from the peak of 137.510 recorded on January 10, 2021 and from the more recent 102.967 on September 4 , during the peak of the diffusion of the Delta variant.
In all, 56.189.547 people in the United States have contracted the virus and 827.748 have died. In the week ending yesterday, an average of 1.200 people died a day; a year ago, the average remained at 3.000 deaths a day for about a month.
