COVID-19 cases each day. As the month progressed, hotspots began to emerge across the Sun Belt and began accelerating at an alarming rate.Over the last seven days of June, daily new infections had almost doubled to 42,000 nationally.Brazil is the only other country to report more than 50,000 new cases in one day.The daily increase in new cases could reach 100,000 unless a nationwide push was made to tamp down the fast-spreading virus, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday.The rise in cases is not just the result of more testing.