Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Infection Covid-19 the Delta variant is not only widespread in China. The increase in cases also occurred in the United States (US).
Director of the US Centers for Infectious Diseases (CDC) Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the average daily cases per week had surpassed the peak. As of Friday (30/7/2021) lAS recorded 72,790 cases per day on a weekly average, higher than last year’s summer peak of 68,700.
“Our battle (against Covid-19) is going to last a little bit longer,” Walensky said during a White House Covid briefing CNBC International, Tuesday (3/7/2021)
“It’s hard. It’s tough. But, we are together in this.”
Florida and Texas contributed the most Covid cases in the US. The two states account for about two-thirds of the daily cases in the superpower.
The condition of health facilities in Florida and Louisiana is reported to be increasingly concerning. This high infection rate has led to full inpatient rooms and the latest warnings about the massive spread of the virus.
More than 10,000 patients were hospitalized in Florida on Sunday. This surpassed the state’s record which had been at the level of 2,000 in the past 30 days.
“This is a much younger age group being hospitalized,” said Mary Mayhew, head of the Florida Hospitals Association. Reuters.
“Over the past year, so many have heard over and over that Covid poses the greatest risk to our parents, to individuals with serious underlying conditions, but the Delta variant is clearly a significant risk to younger people.”
In Louisiana, the health facility is expected to break its record within 24 hours. This is driven by low vaccination in the state that houses the city of New Orleans.
“These are the darkest days of this pandemic,” said Dr. Catherine O’Neal, chief medical officer of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
O’Neal urged Louisians to get vaccinated, warning that hospitals were overwhelmed. Many nurses have fallen ill with the virus, leaving the state with a staff deficit of 6,000 people.
Not only in these two states, the number of hospitalizations in Arkansas has also jumped sharply and is expected to break records. In California, political leaders in eight areas of the San Francisco Bay Area are reinstating mandatory indoor masks in public places starting at midnight this Tuesday.
according to WorldometersThe US recorded 48,179 new Covid-19 cases with 193 deaths Monday. Currently, there are 5,542,608 active cases in the US with 11,805 of them serious or critical symptoms.
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