500,000 confirmed cases per day in the U.S. Worst winter pandemic into reality

[뉴욕=이데일리 김정남 특파원] Due to the spread of the new omicron mutation, the number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States per day has skyrocketed to around 500,000. The arrival of the worst winter pandemic has become a reality.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) on the 30th (local time), the number of new infections in the United States on the 29th was 525,763. the highest ever The daily New York Times (NYT) estimated that the number of confirmed cases exceeded 488,000 on the same day. The number soaring to around 500,000 a day is almost double the size of the pandemic last winter.

According to CNN citing data from Johns Hopkins University, the average daily number of confirmed cases for the past week as of the 29th was 30886. This is the first time that the average number of confirmed cases has exceeded 300,000. The New York Times averaged 301,472 infections per day for a week.

The New York Times reported that “more than 2 million people have been infected in the last week,” and “15 out of 50 states and autonomous territories recorded the highest number of confirmed cases.”

Washington DC, the capital, is emerging as a new epicenter of COVID-19, and New York, New Jersey and Maryland states in the northeastern Atlantic coast are also breaking new records every day.