WASHINGTON – The US has reported an all-time high of nearly 200,000 new Covid-19 cases, setting a new record for the fifth time in a week, data updated yesterday by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.
The new daily case count of 194,610 refreshed the previous nationwide record of 143,408 cases set on the previous day, pushing the seven-day average daily increase to a record high of 132,442 cases, reports Xinhua news agency, quoting the latest CDC data.
The country has recorded more than 10,707,000 cases with more than 244,100 related deaths as of yesterday evening, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University. – Bernama, November 14, 2020
