The numbers of hospitalizations in the United States continue to rise, defying the delay of the weekend
Peter Wells in New York and Emma Boyde in Hong Kong
The number of people hospitalized in the US due to Covid-19 continued to rise, defying the usual delay in reporting weekend numbers on a Monday, suggesting a worrying burden on health facilities in some of the states. most affected.
“As expected, most of the numbers were lower in the past 2 days. However, current hospitalizations do not show the same weekend effect. There are almost 54k patients with COVID-19 in US hospitals The 7-day average for daily deaths increased modestly, ”said the Covid Tracking Project on Twitter.
The United States reported fewer than 60,000 new cases of coronavirus for the first time in four days on Monday, while the increase in deaths was the smallest in a week.
Another 58,357 people tested positive for the disease in the past 24 hours, according to data from the Covid Monitoring Project, down from 60,978 on Sunday and nearly 8,300 below a record 66,645 on July 10.
Monday’s numbers tend to be lower due to a slowdown in reporting over the weekend.
Florida (12,624) reported the biggest jump of the day, with its rise to second after its record jump of 15,300 on Sunday. The increase meant Florida broke New York’s seven-day average record for cases per million people, the Covid Tracking Project said on Twitter.
Other populous hot spots such as California (8,358) and Texas (5,655) recorded increases that were comfortably less than in recent records.
Among the 13 US states that reported increases of more than 1,000 days in one day, Tennessee (3,314), Kansas (1,447), and Washington (1,438) reported record jumps.
Another 327 people in the US died of coronavirus in the last day, the smallest increase since July 6.
