An ABC News analysis of COVID-19 trends across all 50 U.S. states as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico found there were increases in newly confirmed cases over the past two weeks in 28 states.
The analysis also found increases in the daily positivity rate of COVID-19 tests in 25 states, increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations in 35 states and increases in daily COVID-19 death tolls in 18 states plus Puerto Rico.
Two states -- Montana and South Dakota -- reported their highest single-day increases in the number of new COVID-19 cases. Seven states -- Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming -- hit a record number of current COVID-19 hospitalizations in a day.Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health nurses Crys Kuntz, left, and Sara Nelson confer inside the Bismarck Event Center in Bismarck, N.D., where vehicles were lined up for the weekly drive-thru COVID-19 testing, Sept. 8, 2020.
Although figures in the Northeast still remain relatively low, the number of new cases continues to slowly increase, relative to the figures that were seen during the spring. The region's seven-day average of new cases is now the highest it has been since June 2. In the last month alone, that average has increased by more than 69%.
The number of new cases in the South remain significantly lower than they were throughout the summer. However, the South still contributes to more than 45% of the country's daily regional caseload, with an average of over 18,000 new cases per day.
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