The United States has added almost 143,000 new COVID-19 cases and close to 1,000 more deaths, according to updated data Monday from Johns Hopkins University.
The data shows there were 142,700 new cases Sunday, bringing the national total to 12.25 million since the start of the pandemic. There have been more than 2 million new cases since Nov. 10. At the start of the crisis, it took six months to reach 2 million cases in the United States.
Another 900 patients died on Sunday, according to the data. Almost 25,000 patients have died nationwide in November alone.
The average deaths per day (1,300) has risen by 50% over the last two weeks, according to the health website Stat, and there have now been a total of 256,800 coronavirus deaths in the United States.
The Transportation Security Administration says the number of travelers who passed through U.S. airport checkpoints this weekend topped 1 million per day for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
About 1 million travelers passed through on both Friday and Sunday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday -- one of the busiest travel periods of the year -- despite recommendations from federal health officials to stay home.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week strongly recommended against traveling for the holiday period, due to surging cases nationwide.