The United States recorded a heavy toll of more than 3,700 deaths and 250,000 cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, December 16, in a single day, a double record since the start of the pandemic, according to figures from Johns-Hopkins University.
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The country has been facing a spectacular rebound in the epidemic for more than a month.
Some 113,000 people are also currently hospitalized because of the virus, according to data from the US Department of Health.
This is also a higher.