US sees highest surge in new Covid cases on record

The United States is now recording over 2,65,000 new Covid-19 cases on a daily basis, a surge driven largely by the Omicron variant.

More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the US have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant.

The previous mark was 250,000 cases per day, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University.