The US reach a new high, exceeding 80,000 confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday for the third time in six days as the nation is gripped in another sweeping COVID outbreak, according to data from worldometers.info.
According to the data, 81,581 reported to have confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, with Texas, Illinois, Florida and California topping the nation. Every state and Washington, DC registered new cases.
The US also nearly doubled the number of new cases of the next nation on the list, India, which has four times the US population. For the second day in a row, the nation topped 1,000 daily fatalities.