The US reported less than 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, for the first time in months, the data show.
Just over 96,000 new cases were identified on Sunday, down from 113,927 cases reported on Saturday, according to the COVID Tracking Project (CTP). It was the first time since November 2 that less than 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported.
The data on Sunday was missing updates from a handful of states because some did not report regularly over the weekend, while others were having “technical difficulties”.
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Still, recent figures can be considered a positive trend.
Data from the COVID Screening Project showed that new cases, hospitalizations and deaths declined in the past week.
“For the seven-day period from January 28 to February 3, new weekly cases fell more than 16 percent from the previous week and dropped to less than one million for the first time since the week of November 5,” according to the last CTP Fifth. “This is still a surprising number of new cases per week, but much better than the nearly 1.8 million cases reported in the week of January 14th.”
The number of people currently hospitalized for the virus (81,439) has dropped by more than 40,000 from the peak in the US in early January, but it is still much higher compared to before the increase in autumn and winter cases.
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“We are still well above the peak of hospitalization, around 60,000, during the peaks of April and July,” wrote the CTP on Twitter.
More than 1,450 new deaths from the virus were reported on Sunday – the same day as the Super Bowl LV – which some fear may have been a ‘super-disseminating event’.
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As of Sunday, more than 26,796,705 people in total had been infected with COVID-19 in the United States, and at least 454,134 died of the virus, according to the CTP. More than 300 million tests have been reported since the pandemic began, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.