The number of corona patients admitted to the hospital has increased by almost 50% in the last one week and has now exceeded 100000. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, there have been cases of corona in more than 325,000 children in the US last week.
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There has been an outcry again in the whole world regarding Corona. Meanwhile, America broke all the records of the Corona case. There were more than one million people infected with the coronavirus on Monday, the highest daily number of any country in the world. The number of corona patients hospitalized has increased by almost 50% in the last one week and has now exceeded 100,000.
According to Reuters data, it has reached this limit for the first time in a year. The surge has led to the cancellation of Broadway shows from commercial airline flights in recent weeks, forcing public schools to declare winter holidays. Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school district, said it would cancel classes on Wednesday after the teachers’ union voted to resume remote learning.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, there have been more than 3,25,000 children in the US for the week ending December 30, which is a new high and almost double compared to the previous two weeks. . In Los Angeles County, a presiding judge of one of America’s largest court systems ordered criminal trials to be postponed for two weeks because of the latest wave of infections.
An average of 486,000 new cases per day in the US in the last one week
The country has recorded an average of 486,000 new cases per day in the past week, a rate doubling in seven days and more than any other country. The average number of coronavirus deaths in the country has remained steady at around 1,300 per day throughout December and early January, although deaths are generally lower than case numbers and hospitalizations. According to experts, the Omicron virus is more easily transmitted than the previous virus. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday that the new variant was estimated to account for 95.4% of the total reported cases in the US as of January 1.
There is less danger than Omicron: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that there is evidence that Omicron may cause less severe disease. Still, health officials have warned that the sheer volume of Omicron cases could plague hospitals, some of whom are already struggling to handle coronavirus patients, mainly those without vaccinations. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a 30-day state of emergency on Tuesday and mobilized 1,000 National Guard members for pandemic response work as the state’s coronavirus hospitalizations hit a record high of more than 3,000.
