For the first time since November 4, 2020, the seven-day moving average of new coronavirus cases has dropped below the 100,000 mark, signalling a new dip in the spread of the virus around the nation, the Associated Press reports.
The average peaked on January 12, 2021 at nearly 250,000 new daily cases. It dipped below 100,000 on Friday and stayed below that threshold on Saturday.
“We are still at about 100,000 cases a day. We are still at around 1,500 to 3,500 deaths per day. The cases are more than two-and-a-half-fold times what we saw over the summer,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s encouraging to see these trends coming down, but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place.”