US reports highest daily coronavirus infections since July

Nearly 70,000 coronavirus infections were reported in the US on Friday, marking the nation’s single highest confirmed daily case count since July.

The US surpassed 9 million cases this week as it entered the eight month of a pandemic that has killed more than 218,000 people, according to John Hopkins University. At least 69,000 confirmed cases were logged on 16 October, according to The COVID Tracking Project.

That’s just shy of the more than 71,300 cases that were logged on 29 July, as the US entered a second “surge” following a deadly spring.

The highest single daily case count was two weeks earlier, when confirmed infections hit more than 77,000.