The US surpassed nine million cases on Friday just hours after reporting a record-high of more than 88,500 new coronavirus cases on Thursday
Daily deaths are low compared to figures seen in the early days of the pandemic, with 971 recorded on Thursday, but are creeping back up towards 1,000 per day
* On Friday, the US topped more than nine million coronavirus cases, making up 20% of the world's total
* It comes just hours after the country set a record-high of more than 88,500 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, breaking the previous single-day record of around 83,700 on Saturday
* The seven-day rolling average number of new daily cases also hit a new high of 76,541, according to data from Johns Hopkins University
* Texas leads the country with more than 900,000 total infections, followed by California, Florida and New York and Illinois
* States such as Illinois and North Dakota reported all-time highs of around 6,400 infections and more than 1,200 infections, respectively
* More than 229,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and 971 of those fatalities were recorded on Thursday
* Although daily fatalities are trending back up towards 1,000, one New York City hospital system found that the death rate among the most severely ill has fallen by 70%
The number of coronavirus cases in the US has topped nine million - more than 20 percent of the world's total - as the Midwest and Mountain States report surges in infections.
It comes just hours after the country set a record number of coronavirus cases with more than 88,500 new infections reported in a single day on Thursday, breaking the previous record set on Saturday of 83,757.
This means America's total case count has risen by one million in just 14 days as the nation faces a third wave just ahead of the November 3 presidential election.
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