The United States registered a new record of covid-19 cases in 24 hours on Friday, with almost 235,000, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
On the other hand, almost 2,600 deaths from the disease were registered in one day, according to the continuous count of the university that AFP reviews every night at 8:30 p.m. local time.
In the last eight days, the United States has registered more than 200,000 new infections daily, with the exception of the weekend.
And the daily death toll has exceeded 2,400 since December 1, excluding last weekend.
More than 108,000 people are currently hospitalized due to the new coronavirus pandemic in the world’s leading economic power, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.
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