The number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the United States reached a new high of nearly 650,000

On December 31, 2021, people attended a New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, NEW York. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ying)

Washington, December 31 (Xinhua) -- According to the new statistics released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the number of new confirmed cases of new coronavirus in the United States on December 30, 2021 was as high as 647067, once again setting a new record for the highest number of new cases in a single day since the outbreak of the epidemic.

According to the data, as of the evening of December 31, Eastern Time, the cumulative number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the United States exceeded 54.3 million; the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 824,300.

With the recent accelerated spread of the mutated new coronavirus Omiljung strain in the United States, the epidemic in the United States has rebounded severely, and many epidemic indicators have set new records. According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 2.7 million new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were added in the United States in the past week, the highest weekly increase in confirmed cases since the outbreak began.

In addition, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average daily increase in COVID-19 cases in the country as of December 29 was 316277, the highest since the outbreak of the epidemic; as of December 28, the average daily increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations for children aged 17 and under in the United States was nearly 400, which is also the highest record since the center began to count this data in August 2020.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said dec. 29 that the surge in cases caused by the Omiljun strain is expected to peak at the end of January 2022.

Source: Xinhua News Agency