Coronavirus: US logs more than 3,900 deaths in a single day, another grim record

Name: ‘Every day we struggle’, doctors overwhelmed treating Covid-19 cases in hospitals around the world
Uploaded: 2021-01-06T02:49:18.000Z
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Description: ‘Every day we struggle’, doctors overwhelmed treating Covid-19 cases in hospitals around the world

The number of people hospitalised in the US is also at its highest since the beginning of the pandemic, with more than 131,000 patients occupying beds

Los Angeles ambulance workers have been told to stop transporting some patients with low survival chances to hospital, and to limit oxygen use

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Agence France-Pressein Washington

Published: 10:49am, 6 Jan 2021Updated: 8:40pm, 6 Jan 2021

The United States has broken its own record for the number of daily deaths from Covid-19 yet again, recording 3,936 fatalities in 24 hours, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

The worst-hit country in the world by the coronavirus pandemic also recorded 250,173 new cases in the period up until 8.30pm on Tuesday, the Baltimore-based university’s records showed.

That brings the US to more than 21 million cases and 357,067 deaths in total since the start of the pandemic.

The number of people hospitalised is also at its highest since the beginning of the pandemic, with more than 131,000 patients occupying beds because of Covid-19, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.

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‘Every day we struggle’, doctors overwhelmed treating Covid-19 cases in hospitals around the world

The situation is particularly dire in the south and west of the country.

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