A funeral director moves a casket of someone who died from Covid-19, on December 31 in East Los Angeles. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

Nearly 4,000 Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the US on the day of the Capitol siege.

On January 6, the day a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol, America also recorded the most Covid-19 deaths in a single day so far in the pandemic.

There were 3,964 Covid-19 deaths reported on Wednesday, according to the New York Times’s database. The US is now averaging about 2,700 deaths daily over the last seven days. In total, 361,383 Americans have died in the pandemic.

Every important Covid-19 metric — cases, deaths, and hospitalizations — is at or near its record high in the waning days of the Trump administration.

Covid Tracking Project Charts showing Covid-19 metrics since April