Deaths have not spiked amid the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, hovering at an average of about 277 per day
* The U.S. recorded 52,111 new COVID-19 cases on Monday with a seven-day rolling average of 34,682, which is a 224% increase from the 10,678 average recorded three weeks ago
* Nearly every state - aside from Montana and Iowa - and the District of Columbia have seen infections rise in the last week
* CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky said on Tuesday that the Indian 'Delta' variant is spreading, accounting for 83% of all new infections, up from 50% two weeks ago
* In southwestern Missouri, the nation's COVID hotspot, the health department reported 251 COVID-19 patients, surpassing the record from the winter surge set in December
* Louisiana has seen cases soar 115% from 650 per to 1,398 per day over the last 14 days with the state's biggest hospital opening an entirely new
The Indian 'Delta' Covid variant now makes up more than three-quarters of all new cases in the U.S. as infections continue to spike across the country.
In testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Wednesday, Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the variant accounts for 83 percent of COVID-19 cases.
The figure is a considerable increase from the 50 percent of infections that were linked to the Delta variant two weeks ago.
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