The United States on Wednesday recorded the highest number of Covid infections and deaths due to the disease in a single day since February.
With a whopping 275,674 new cases reported on Wednesday, an unprecedented figure in recent months, the total number of people that have been infected with coronavirus has risen to 89,225,558, as per Johns Hopkins University's latest data.
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