[Breaking News] 440,000 new daily cases in the U.S., a record high... World record beyond India

As the highly contagious mutation of COVID-19, Omicron, spread rapidly, the number of new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States on the 27th soared to a record level of 440,000.

According to the US media The Hill on the 28th local time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of new confirmed cases in the United States on the 27th was 441,278, breaking the daily high record since the pandemic (global pandemic).

This number far exceeds the level of about 294,000 in January, before the vaccine was distributed on a large scale in the United States, and about 290,000 on the 20th of this month, after the spread of omicron mutations.

Even if you look at the Johns Hopkins University tally, the number of new cases on the 27th was 512,553, breaking a record high in the United States.

In addition, both the CDC and Johns Hopkins University figures are world records, far exceeding the 412,262 people counted in India on May 6th, when the delta mutation was spreading (based on the statistics of the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare).

India has a population of about 1.4 billion, whereas the United States has about 330 million.

However, a CDC official pointed out the possibility that the number of confirmed cases may have been overestimated as the effects of delays in testing and closing of testing centers during the Christmas holiday were reflected in the figures on the 27th.

In the United States, the average daily number of new COVID-19 cases (based on Johns Hopkins University) for the past 7 days, which is used as a standard to determine the trend of COVID-19, is 254,496 as of the 28th.

This is also an all-time high for the past 7 days, but it is quite different from the number of new confirmed cases per day on the 27th, compiled by the CDC or Johns Hopkins University.

The previous 7-day average daily high of new corona19 confirmed cases was 251,989 on January 11th.

With Omicron's fierce advance, like the United States, major countries such as Britain, France, and Italy are writing new confirmed cases every day.

The good news is that Omicron's increase in inpatients and deaths is not as steep as in confirmed cases.

In fact, the average number of hospitalized patients per day in the United States for 7 days was 71,381, up 6% from 2 weeks ago, and the average daily death rate decreased by 5% from 2 weeks ago to only 1,205.