US records deadliest COVID day on record

The United States has today recorded their deadliest day on record during the Coronavirus pandemic with authorities reporting more than 2,800 COVID related deaths while hospitalisations rose above 10,000 a day. 

The US now has more people in hospital with COVID-19 than at any other point during the pandemic. 

The US death toll since the start of the pandemic stands at about 273,000.