The total number of Covid-19 cases in the United States has surpassed 22.09 million as of yesterday evening, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
The national case count has risen to 22,095,975, with 371,989 relevant deaths, as of 7.21pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) yesterday, according to the CSSE tally.
On the first day of 2021, the number of confirmed cases exceeded 20 million and it was added to two million more cases within eight days.
Eight days into the New Year, the country has already seen 23,083 Covid-19 deaths, data showed. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) reported yesterday that many medical experts and virologists warned that the unmasked supporters of