US sees record-high daily Covid numbers as election nears

Published : 31 Oct 2020, 12:52

Sahos Desk

On Thursday, the US saw a record high of 91,000 new cases of Covid-19 recorded, with spikes in dozens of states just days before the presidential election.

More than 1,000 Americans died with the virus the same day, as the national death rate and number of hospital patients continue to rise upward.

According to a Johns Hopkins University count, over nine million total cases have been registered in the US.

The contest is coming to a head on Tuesday between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

According to Reuters, this is the third time this month that the US daily death toll has reached 1,000.

There are outbreaks in twenty-one states, with some of the most serious in the states that will be crucial in determining the 2020 election.

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