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U.S. sets new record-high COVID-19 daily count as total cases surpass 12 million
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The United States reported new record-high COVID-19 daily case count at nearly 200,000 on Friday, as the total number of confirmed cases surpassed 12 million on Saturday.
The country has recorded more than 12,059,686 cases with more than 255,800 related deaths as of Saturday evening, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University. It took only six days for the country to add over 1 million infections to a record high of 11 million cases on Nov. 15.
A total of 192,673 new cases and 1,885 new deaths were recorded across the United States on Friday, according to data updated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday.
The new daily case count broke the previous world record set by the country on the previous day, and pushed the 7-day average daily increase to an all-time high of 164,850 cases.
It also marks the 13th consecutive day that daily case increase in the United States surpassed 100,000.
The new death tally brought the 7-day average daily increase to 1,434, the highest since mid-May.
Currently there are over 82,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the country, a record high since the onset of the pandemic in the country, according to The COVID Tracking Project.