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The third wave of infections is spreading across the United States, Reuters reported. On Sunday, the number of identified patients worldwide reached five million, and the number in the United States surpassed one million.
In the last ten days of the presidential elections, more than a million people have been infected.
Washington state has the highest incidence of coronavirus since it was first detected 293 days ago.
In the United States, 1,31,420 people were infected on Saturday, the most in a single day. In the past seven days, more than one lakh of patients have been identified.
In an average of seven days, the number of patients diagnosed in the United States every day is 1.56 million, 29 percent more than the previous week.
This is more than the seven-day average for India and France, the two most volatile countries in Asia and Europe.
The coronavirus epidemic has so far killed 238,000 people in the United States, the highest in the world. Johns Hopkins University reports 12.57 million deaths worldwide so far.
The United States now accounts for one in 11 coronavirus deaths worldwide, according to Reuters.
The daily death toll has been in the thousands for the past five days, a trend previously seen in mid-August.
Health experts say the number of daily deaths also begins to rise four to six weeks after a new wave of infections arrives.
Joe Biden, who won the US presidential election, has repeatedly blamed President Donald Trump for failing to address the epidemic during the election campaign. After being elected, all three have pledged to give the utmost importance to this issue.
Biden is due to form a 12-member task force Monday to tackle the epidemic. The task force will be led by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and former FDA Commissioner David Kessler.
The task force will develop a strategy to begin work on controlling the epidemic after Biden takes office in January.
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