Fresh infections, casualties, hospital admissions going up in US!

Update: 2021-08-24 06:41 GMT
The United States, which is the severely hit nation in the country due to the ongoing Coronavirus continues to fear the virus spread with the steady rise in fresh infections, hospitalisations and casualties.

Quoting the national public agency Centers for Disease Control(CWC) as saying, the US media said that the country recorded a rise in average new cases of Covid this week.

As per the information, the United States had recorded an average of 133,056 cases in this week, which was increased by around 14 percent. During the last week, the country saw 116,740 cases on an average.

Besides the damage caused by the new infections, the United States is also struggling with the steady growth in fresh hospitalisations in the country due to the pandemic.

It is said that in the last week, the United States saw more than 14 percent of new hospital admissions than the prior week which is a big concern.

The country is seeing the peaks of hospital admissions with several regions reporting fresh cases.

As a one more big threat to the country, the United States is also witnessing a rise in the average weekly casualties. More than 10 percent of growth was registered in terms of fresh casualties caused by Covid in the current week, reports claimed.

The United States, which saw the peaks of the virus outbreak after the country went for the Presidential elections, has begun to control the situation and the cases have started to come down gradually.

However, the virus has struck again in the country and the contagious variant of Covid, the Delta variant is said to be the driving force of Covid in the United States as well as the other countries.

Going by the data gathered by Johns Hopkins University, as of now, more than 37. 8 million people have come in contact with the contagious disease in the United States, while over 629,000 people have breathed their last while battling the virus.

Looking at the vaccine numbers of the United States, more than 51 percent are said to have administered with the anti-covid vaccine doses.
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