CDC director says U.S. 'nearing the peak' of coronavirus pandemic

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told NBC's Today show on Monday that U.S. was "nearing the peak" of the coronavirus pandemic, which would possibly hit it this week.

"I think we'll sometime, hopefully this week, we'll be able to say — you'll know when you're at the peak when the next day is less than the day before," Redfield said. "We are stabilizing across the country in terms of the state of this outbreak."

The U.S. has so far registered over 22,000 deaths and its total cases have surpassed 557,000, making it the country with the largest number of both coronavirus fatalities and infections.