Washington: The United States on Friday hit a new one-day high for reported coronavirus infections with more than 83,000, topping the previous record set in July by more than 5,000, the latest data revealed.
Johns Hopkins University’s global tracker showed 83,757 new cases recorded Friday, up from 71,671 confirmed Thursday.
The country’s seven-day average of new cases increased to more than 63,000 on Friday, an 84% increase from mid-September. The figures appear to counter President Donald Trump’s statement during this week’s presidential debate that the United States was “rounding the corner” in its war against the virus.
“We easily will hit six-figure numbers in terms of the number of cases,” Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNN. “And the deaths are going to go up precipitously in the next three to four weeks, following usually new cases by about two to three weeks.”
