Sharjah24 - Reuters: The number of coronavirus patients in U.S. hospitals has breached 100,000, the highest level in eight months, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, as a resurgence of COVID-19 spurred by the highly contagious Delta variant strains the nation's health care system.

A total of 101,433 COVID patients were hospitalised, according to data published on Friday morning.

U.S. COVID-19 hospitalisations have more than doubled in the past month. Over the past week, more than 500 people with COVID were admitted to hospitals each hour on average, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The United States reached its all-time peak for hospitalisations on Jan. 14 when there were over 142,000 coronavirus-infected patients in hospital beds, according to HHS.