U.S. Daily Coronavirus-Case Count Climbs Back Above 50,000
Daily new U.S. coronavirus infections increased from a day earlier, as did the number of people hospitalized.
The U.S. reported more than 52,000 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, up from 41,653 on Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Total cases reported now exceed 7.8 million, with nearly 216,000 deaths.
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World-wide, more than 38.1 million people have been infected and nearly 1.1 million have died, according to the Johns Hopkins data.
The number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 in the U.S. as of Tuesday was 36,034, the highest since Aug. 29, according to the Covid Tracking Project—though still lower than July’s peaks of more than 59,000.
The seven-day moving average of new infections in the U.S., which