The US reported record daily increases in coronavirus cases, hospitalisations and deaths yesterday. There were 217,664 new cases, 100,667 people hospitalised with the virus and 2879 people who died from covid-19 – all record high figures since its epidemic began. US health adviser Anthony Fauci warned that the situation is likely to become even worse in the coming weeks. “I think January is going to be terrible because you’re going to have the Thanksgiving surge super-imposed upon the Christmas surge,” Fauci told Newsweek. “It’s entirely conceivable that January could be the worst,” he said.
California, where hospital admissions have risen by 86 per cent in the past 14 days, is one of the latest US states to introduce new restrictions. Yesterday, the state’s governor Gavin Newsom announced a new stay-at-home order as well as restrictions on businesses and on non-essential travel. “This is the most challenging moment since the start of the pandemic,” Newsom told a press conference. “Lives will be lost unless we do more than we’ve ever done. We are being called to do everything in our power to make the kind of tough decisions that are required to get through this,” he said
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