U.S. shatters daily coronavirus record with over 100,000 new infections: Reuters tally

The United States set a new all-time high for coronavirus cases confirmed in a single 24-hour period on Friday, reporting just over 100,000 new infections to surpass the record total of 91,000 posted a day earlier, according to a Reuters tally.

The daily caseload of 100,233 is also a world record for the global pandemic, surpassing the 97,894 cases reported by India on a single day in September, Reuters reported.

According to the latest tally from the Johns Hopkins University, the country reported 9.02 million confirmed cases by Friday evening, and the death toll hit 229,511. The U.S. population in 2020 numbers just over 331 million people, which means at least one in 37 people in the states has contracted the disease.