WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The United States
reported an all-time high of nearly 200,000 new COVID-19 cases Thursday,
setting a new record for the fifth time in a week, showed data updated Friday
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The latest
daily case count of 194,610 refreshed the previous nationwide record of 143,408
set on the previous day, pushing the seven-day average daily increase to a
record high of 132,442 cases, according to the CDC.
A man rides a bicycle near
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Nov. 13, 2020.
(Xinhua/Liu Jie)
A total of 1,147 deaths from
the coronavirus were recorded nationwide on Thursday, bringing the seven-day
average deaths to 1,136, the highest since early August.
It marked the fifth
consecutive day that the daily case count in the United States had set a new
record.
The country has witnessed the
most critical week as major COVID-19 metrics including the daily case increase,
seven-day average daily increase and hospitalizations reached new highs this
week.
A new forecast released by
the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of
Washington on Thursday projected 439,000 cumulative COVID-19 deaths across the
United States by March 1, and a peak of daily deaths in mid-January at 2,200 a
day.
A healthcare worker helps a
woman check in for a COVID-19 test at a testing site in Washington, D.C., the
United States, Nov. 13, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
"Although mask use has
increased to 67 percent, further increases to 95 percent could save a further
68,000 lives by March 1," the IHME said in the report.
"Daily cases are
increasing at an accelerating rate with deaths increasing, but at a slower
rate. Given the experience in Europe, we expect that the increase in deaths
will soon begin to match the increase in cases," said the report.
The fall/winter surge is
evident in nearly all U.S. states at this point, according to the IHME.
People wait in line to get
tested for COVID-19 at a testing site in Washington, D.C., the United States,
Nov. 13, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
U.S. President Donald Trump
said on Friday that a coronavirus vaccine could be available to the general
population as early as April.
The United States has
recorded more than 10,727,000 cases with more than 244,300 related deaths as of
Friday night, according to the real-time count maintained by Johns Hopkins
University.
(File photo).
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