US reports record 84,000 coronavirus cases in one day

People drink and socialise inside Agave Kitchen in Hudson, Wisconsin, in the US as the coronavirus disease outbreak continues on October 23, 2020. Picture: REUTERS/Bing Guan

The spike in cases comes less than two weeks before the presidential election on November 3 and is hitting battleground states such as Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. On Thursday, the country reported a near-record 76,195 new cases. Now, hospitalisations are over 41,000 and deaths average nearly 800 per day. Sixteen states had record one-day increases in new cases on Friday and 11 reported a record number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients.

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