A record number of people infected with COVID-19 and deceased in the United States – USA.

The United States recorded a record number of new coronavirus infections and deaths in the past 24 hours. The country has also reached a peak of COVID-19 patients in hospital and health experts fear that the epidemic situation will continue to worsen, the DPA reported.

The Johns Hopkins University announced yesterday a record of 218,000 new cases of coronavirus and 2,879 died in one day in the United States. In the country with a population of around 330 million people, a total of 14.1 million people have been registered with the coronavirus and more than 276,000 have died from the COVID-19 disease caused by it.

The United States is the country most affected by the pandemic. They occupy the first place in the world in number of infected and dead.

The number of COVID-19 patients in US hospitals reached another peak, surpassing the threshold of 100,000 (100,667). The trend observed for weeks of setting a new record every day continues.

Although mass vaccination of the population is expected to begin in the foreseeable future, health experts hope that Thanksgiving gatherings late last month and around the upcoming Christmas holidays will worsen the epidemic.

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The rapid growth of new coronavirus cases in California has led to new shutdown orders. The capacity of intensive care units in America’s most populous state could fill up in weeks, Governor Gavin Newsom warned.

Yesterday, six jurisdictions in Northern California, including the city of San Francisco, announced plans to ban leaving the house tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

The situation is very precarious now, Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease specialist in the United States, told NBC television. He predicts that the peak of the epidemic after Thanksgiving will be reached in a week or two.

“There is certainly a light at the end of the tunnel with the vaccine, but we are not there yet, so we need to strengthen our health measures to try to straighten the curve of new cases,” said Dr. Fauci.

On Thursday, United States President-elect Joe Biden said he would ask Americans to wear a mask in public places after taking office on January 20, notes BTA.