Washington, D.C., on Friday announced its highest number of COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day, reporting 844 cases from the previous day.
That exceeds the number of cases that D.C. saw on Wednesday, which was 508 cases for the day.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said on Friday that she was considering reimplementing the city’s mask mandate that was lifted in November, given the spike in new cases.
The U.S. is broadly seeing an uptick in new COVID-19 cases, including more than 156,000 reported on Thursday and more than 143,000 the previous day.
The last peak in the fall, amid the delta wave, included case counts as high as nearly 200,000 per day.
The surge of cases comes as a new variant of COVID-19, omicron, makes its way around the U.S.
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