The US reported a daily increase of more than 60,000 coronavirus cases for the first time on Wednesday, vaulting the number of confirmed cases nationwide over 3m.
A further 62,197 people in the US tested positive for coronavirus over the past 24 hours, according to data from Covid Tracking Project, up from 51,888 on Tuesday and about 4,600 more than the previous high mark on July 3. There have been 3,042,503 confirmed cases in the US since the pandemic began.
The number of deaths increased by about 900 for the second day in a row, in the wake of Donald Trump hailing the country's low mortality rate, which hit a more-than-three-month low of 209 on Sunday.