Washington: The United States has witnessed the highest weekly level as the country again started witnessing a fresh surge of coronavirus infections, on Monday.
According to a report by Bloomberg, the new cases in the US rose to 761,216 in the week ended Sunday, the highest total since early February.
Following this, hospitalizations overwhelmed with patients among America’s deep south states on Monday and authorities have appealed to unvaccinated residents to receive the shot at once to combat the virus spread.
The fresh surge has been fuelled by the Delta mutation of the coronavirus and most of the positive samples have been found of the unvaccinated people, authorities said.
As per the record, the death toll has also risen to record levels as it climbed 49% to 3,486 for the same period. It was the biggest weekly increase since December, Bloomberg reported.
The US has been at the top of the list of the countries worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 616,800 Americans have succumbed to the viral infection that targets the immunity system of the body. The number of total infections stands at 35,948,131, the John Hopkins’ tally showed.
Mississippi’s top public health official on Monday said that as Covid-19 cases are surging with delta variant, which is highly contagious and no intensive care beds are available in 35 of the state’s top-level hospitals. Hospitalizations for Covid-19 have hit a record high in some other states including Louisiana, Arkansas.
Hospitals overwhelmed amid fresh daily surge of COVID-19 in US
