The U.S. reached its single-day record with over 90,000 COVID-19 cases.
Over 45.4 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks. The criteria for diagnosis -- through clinical means or a lab test -- has also varied from country to country.
COVID-19 has killed more than 1.18 million people worldwide.
The United States is the worst-affected nation, with more than 9 million diagnosed cases and at least 229,585 lives lost.
The U.S. battle against the pandemic is headed in a dangerous direction as the nation reached its single-day record for cases on Thursday, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Forty-two states and territories are in an upward trajectory of new cases, according to an internal Health and Human Services memo obtained by ABC News.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his wife are quarantining after learning on Friday that they “were recently exposed to an individual who received a positive test,” tweeted Kemp’s press secretary, Cody Hall.
Kemp and the first lady, Marty Kemp, have since been tested, Hall said. Results of their tests have not yet been released.
Florida reported 5,592 daily COVID-19 cases, bringing the state’s total to 800,216, according to Florida’s Department of Health.
Florida, a key state in the election, has the third-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country, behind California and Texas, respectively.
There were 92 more deaths recorded in Florida in the last 24 hours, bringing the fatality total to 16,947, according to state data.
Florida’s positivity rate stands at 5.89%.
ABC News’ Scott Withers contributed to this report.
A resident of Solano County, California, has a co-infection of COVID-19 and the flu, the county’s health department said.
The resident was not identified, but the health department said he or she is under the age of 65 and is the first person in the county with a confirmed co-infection.
“With the likelihood of both COVID-19 and seasonal flu activity this winter, contracting either disease may weaken your immune system and make you more susceptible to the other disease,” Solano County Health Officer Bela Matyas said in a statement. “Getting a flu vaccine this year is more important than ever."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone at least 6 months old get a flu shot each year by the end of October.
ABC News’ Jennifer Watts and Eric Strauss contributed to this report.
These 29 states, as well as Puerto Rico, hit a record number of new cases in October, according to the COVID Tracking Project: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Forty-one states, as well as Washington, D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico are seeing an uptick in hospitalizations, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
The only states seeing a decrease in hospitalizations are Delaware, Hawaii and Kansas.
In six states, hospitalization rates are flat: Alaska, California, Maine, Oregon, South Carolina and Vermont.
ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos contributed to this report.
