Clinicians depart a patient room after re-positioning a COVID-19 patient into the supine position in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital on August 10, 2021 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
COVID-19 cases have been surging throughout the country, and in Louisiana, due to the highly transmissible Delta variant.
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  • The US has now recorded more than 40 million coronavirus cases and more than 649,000 virus-related deaths.
  • The staggering data comes as the US grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant.
  • The country logged more than 4 million COVID-19 cases and more than 32,000 new virus deaths last month alone.
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The United States has hit yet another grim milestone in its battle against the coronavirus with a reported more than 40 million COVID-19 cases.

As of Tuesday morning, the nation had logged a total of 40,019,441 confirmed coronavirus cases, as well as 649,168 virus-related deaths since the pandemic began more than a year ago, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University

The staggering data comes as the US grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus.

The country recorded more than 4 million COVID-19 cases and more than 32,000 new virus deaths last month alone, data shows.

According to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national seven-day average of coronavirus cases was at about 150,000 cases per day, while the seven-day average of new COVID-19 hospitalizations was at roughly 12,000 a day.

The US ​​seven-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths was more than 1,100 per day, the data shows.

Meanwhile, as of Tuesday morning 62.3% of the US population had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, while 53% of the country has been fully inoculated against the coronavirus, according to the CDC.

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