The American Academy of Pediatrics announced Monday night that the number of young people contracting COVID-19 has reached unprecedented levels, with nearly 200,000 new cases in October. In just one week at the end of last month, 61,000 new cases were reported in young people: more than any other week the pandemic.
Overall, 18 states have damaged new infection records in the following week, and hospitalizations have increased in 43 states. Since the onset of the pandemic, more than 9. 2 million cases have been shown in the United States and more than 231,000 Americans have died from the virus, according to a johns Hopkins University account.
The pandemic sparked an unprecedented election season in the United States. Before Election Day, several Americans voted ahead, as the country continues to fight the new wave of cases.
The CDC says the unlucky or quarantined electorate can still go to the polls on Election Day, as long as they take the obligatory precautions, such as dressing in a mask.
Contributing: Adriana Diaz and Associated Press
The United States reported more than 84,000 new instances of COVID-19 on Monday, according to a johns Hopkins University account.
A daily record reported on Friday: nearly 100,000 new cases.
Half a million more people in the English city of Liverpool will be reviewed by COVID-19 in britain’s first review of immediate and widespread controls that, according to the government, will be a new weapon in the fight against the pandemic.
Testing will begin later this week at sites in the city that employ a variety of technologies, adding new strategies that can produce effects in an hour or less, the government said on a Tuesday. Everyone who lives or paints in the northern city. The test will be presented to the west of England, have symptoms or not.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes massive evidence will help emerge from the coronavirus crisis, which killed more than 46,000 people in the UK, Europe’s deadliest epidemic. infections that can flood hospitals and emergency rooms.
“These tests will identify the thousands of people in the city who don’t show symptoms but can unknowingly infect others,” Johnson said. “Depending on your good luck in Liverpool, our goal is to distribute millions of those new rapids. . tests over Christmas and provide local communities with the means to use them to reduce transmission in their regions. “
Liverpool has one of the highest infection rates in England, with more than 410 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, to 225 consistent with 100,000 across the country.