With the number of new coronavirus infections (COVID-19) in the United States exceeding 1 million a day, it was found that 95% of the total confirmed cases were infected with the new mutant Omicron.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on the 4th that as of the 1st (local time), the Omicron infection rate among domestic COVID-19 cases is estimated to be 95.4%.
As of the 25th of last month, the CDC reported that the Omicron infection rate among all confirmed cases accounted for 77%, exceeding the previous estimate of 58.6%.
In the United States, where the first confirmed case of Omicron mutation was reported on the 1st of last month, the new mutation spread rapidly, and the day before, there were 1,082,549 new cases, exceeding 1 million for the first time in the world.
The average number of confirmed cases per day in the United States on the 7th was 486,000.
However, the number of deaths and hospitalizations in the U.S. has declined, in contrast to the increase in the number of confirmed cases.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there were 9372 deaths in the past seven days, a decrease of 10% from the previous week.
In fact, according to the New York Times count and CNN until the 2nd, the average weekly average daily number of confirmed cases in the United States in mid-January last year, when the U.S. corona peaked before the advent of Omicron, was regarding 250,000, and the number of hospitalized patients was 142,000, the highest. Recently, when Omicron is in vogue, the number of inpatients is only around 100,000, although the weekly average daily number of confirmed cases exceeds 400,000.
(Seoul = News 1)
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