The U.S. recorded 1,169 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the Johns Hopkins University tracker showed on Thursday, the highest one-day death toll recorded in any country since the global pandemic began.
The toll reflected figures reported by the university between 8:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday and the same time on Thursday. The grim record was previously held by Italy, where 969 people died on March 27.
The U.S. has now recorded 6,069 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Globally, Italy has the highest total death toll, with 13,915 dying of the disease there, followed by Spain at 10,003.
The U.S. also recorded more than 30,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the same 24hour period, bringing the total number of officially reported cases in the country to more than 2,43,000, according to Johns Hopkins.
The outbreak has snapped the U.S.’ record-breaking hiring streak of nearly 10 years, while U.S. and European medical workers struggling to save ailing patients on Friday watched supplies of medicine, protective equipment, and breathing machines dwindle by the hour.
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