Texas became the first US state to surpass a million coronavirus cases as the country battled a third wave of new infections and recorded over 100,000 infections three times in less than a week.
In Texas, the surge in new cases in the past week came mainly from Harris, Dallas and El Paso counties, based on a Reuters tally.
The surge is straining medical facilities, with the city of El Paso converting a convention centre into a field hospital. If Texas were a country, it would be the tenth most affected in the world for total Covid-19 cases.
The state added about 8,000 new cases a day in the past week on average, based on a Reuters tally. Texas, which accounts for over 10% of total US cases, reported the largest number of new cases in the