United States (US) Covid-19 cases could exceed 200,000 a day as the latest surge of the virus driven by the Delta variant is “going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out”, said National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins.

“I will be surprised if we don’t cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks, and that’s heartbreaking considering we never thought we’d be back in that space again. That was January-February, that shouldn’t be August,” Xinhua news agency quoted Collins as saying on Fox News on Sunday.