A staggering 299,087 new cases were confirmed over the past 24 hours.
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 84.6 million people worldwide and killed over 1.8 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 350,000.
The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States was 350,186 as of early Sunday morning, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The country has by far the highest death toll from the disease.
The U.S. set another record for most daily cases, despite some states not even reporting totals due to the New Year's holiday.
There were a record 275,897 cases reported Saturday, even though seven states did not relay any data, according to The COVID Tracking Project.
"Some states are reporting normally, some are reporting multiple days of data, and almost all are dealing with at least some holiday backlogs," the project said.
The seven-day average for hospitalizations stands at a record 123,689 despite incomplete data. There were 2,367 deaths reported on Saturday, too.
Officials expect numbers to spike after the holidays as people return home from gatherings with family and friends.
Legendary talk show host Larry King, 87, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles for COVID-19, a source close to the King family confirms to ABC News.
"Larry has fought so many health issues in the last few years and he is fighting this one hard too, he's a champ," the source close to the family told ABC News.
King, who hosted "Larry King Live" on CNN for 25 years, revealed in 2017 he had been treated for lung cancer. He suffered a major heart attack in 1987 and the tumor was discovered during an annual checkup. He had an angioplasty in April 2019 and suffered a stroke in 2019 as well.
The host went through unbearable tragedy last year when two of his children died less than a month apart. His son, Andy, died of a heart attack in July and his daughter, Chaia, died of lung cancer in August.
King is hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA. The news was first reported by ShowBiz411.
ABC News' Alondra Vale and Josh Hoyos contributed to this report.
After authorizing the Houston Health Department to open the city's first free COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Jan. 2, the call center to make vaccination appointments is already overwhelmed, said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Twitter Saturday.
Turner said at a press conference later in the day that the call center received 250,000 calls by 7:30 a.m. when they only planned to provide 750 vaccinations. They turned to on-site registration to handle all the demand.
Turner plans to open "mega-sites" to provide vaccines in the near future, he said. Staff planned to stay late on Saturday and vaccinate about 1,000 people, the mayor said.
Houston reported 2,334 more cases and eight new deaths on Saturday.
ABC News' Matthew Fuhrman and Abby Shalawylo contributed to this report.
