Covid outbreak continues to weaken in the US

NEW YORK: The US reported just over 18,700 new cases on Saturday, capping the first week since June with no days of infections exceeding 30,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg.
Average daily infections dropped to about 25,600, compared with almost 217,500 at the end of the first week that vaccines were rolled out in the US in mid- December.