RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina reported nearly 10,400 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, marking the first time the state has topped 10,000 cases in a single day and shattering the one-day record set only last week.
The mark of 10,398 new cases is almost 10 percent higher than the 9,527 cases reported on New Year’s Day, and it pushed the seven-day average to a record 7,600 per day over the last week.
North Carolina also set records for COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths on Thursday.
The 137 virus-related deaths were the most for a 24-hour period. Higher death tolls were reported two days in the week after Christmas, but one of those reports covered 36 hours because of what state officials called a technical glitch in collecting data, and the other covered three days over a holiday weekend.
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