COVID-19 continues to surge in the United States as the country set another single-day record for new cases.
The 1,082,549 positive tests that were recorded Monday by the U.S. set a new high mark for the country as the world grapples with the highly transmissible omicron variant of the virus, John Hopkins University said on its tracking website.
The previous record for cases in a single day was nearly 590,000, which the U.S. recorded last week, according to Bloomberg.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. has reported more than 56 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 827,000 deaths from the virus. Both totals are the most of any nation.
More than 200 million people are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States, accounting for about 62.7% of the population, according to JHU.
Over the weekend, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, expressed hope that more people will get vaccinated to avoid another spike after the number of omicron cases drops.
“I hope that as we get into February and March and such that we will be at that level of control,” Fauci told the ABC program “This Week.”
The U.S. reported 1,688 new deaths from COVID-19 on Monday. The country’s single-day record for deaths from the virus was recorded nearly a year ago on Jan. 20, 2021, when the U.S. reported 4,442 fatalities.
