The United States has far exceeded its previous daily record of new Covid-19 cases, adding 201,961 cases in 24 hours, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The high number, partly due to data delayed over the weekend, took total cases in the US to 10,238,243, with a total of 239,588 deaths.

For a week now, the number of new infections has trended at over 100,000 each day.

In the 24-hour period, 1,535 deaths from Covid-19 were registered, a record in recent months as the US struggles to contain the spread of the pandemic.

Coronavirus hospitalisations have also hit an all-time high, with more than 60,000 people hospitalised across the country, according to the Covid Tracking Project.