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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Leah Sinclair

Covid live: US averages 100,000 cases a day amid Delta surge

The US is now averaging 100,000 new Covid-19 infections a day, as the Delta variant continues to spread throughout the country.

The US was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June.

Now the number is 107,143.

"Today, about 400 people will die because of the Delta variant in this country. A tragedy, because virtually all of these deaths were preventable if people had gotten vaccinated," President Joe Biden said at an event on Friday.

Cases and hospitalisations have skyrocketed in the last month, driven by the highly contagious delta variant.

The virus is spreading quickly through unvaccinated populations, particularly in the Deep South. Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi have also had hospitals overrun with patients.

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