More than 200,000 people are testing positive for Covid-19 each day in the US.
The US has recorded its highest level of deaths in a single day from the Covid-19 pandemic on Wednesday.
According to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, 3,124 deaths were recorded, with an additional 221,276 cases identified across the country.
It marks the first time the US has recorded more than 3,000 deaths in a single day since the pandemic began.
The number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 also reached a record 106,000 on Wednesday.
More than 200,000 people are testing positive for Covid-19 on a daily basis in the US.
Over the past two weeks, the country has exceeded 2,000 deaths per day several times.
A new daily record of deaths had been set in the US at 2,804 last week. This figure broke the number recorded in April at the height of the first wave.
Following Britain’s decision to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech two-dose coronavirus vaccine this week, a US advisory panel will meet Thursday to decide whether to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration approve the vaccine in the United States.
The spike in fatalities and infections has overwhelmed hospitals and intensive care units across the country.
A New York Times report has said that more than one-third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds.
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