Washington: More than 4,000 Americans died in a single day for the first time since the start of the pandemic and nearly 275,000 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed on Thursday, new data showed.
Some 4,085 COVID-19 patients died, marking a third consecutive day of record-high death tolls, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The latest figures pushed the total U.S. death toll since March to 365,448 and boosted its seven-day average to nearly 2,800 per day. Nearly 20,000 people have died so far in 2021.
Thursday’s new caseload of 274,700 was the second-highest daily total so far during the pandemic, topped only by the 297,000 recorded last Friday. There have now been 21.6 million total COVID-19 cases in the United States, the Johns Hopkins figures showed.
