People wearing face masks visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Oct. 16, 2020. (Ting Shen/Xinhua)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 99,750 new COVID-19 cases and 1,009 new deaths on Friday, marking two consecutive days that daily cases topped over 90,000.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The United States reported nearly 100,000 COVID-19 cases on Friday, setting the highest single-day number of cases recorded around the world.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 99,750 new COVID-19 cases and 1,009 new deaths on Friday, marking two consecutive days that daily cases topped over 90,000.

It was also the fifth time in a week that daily cases in the United States topped over 80,000.

Friday's number surpassed the previous daily record held by India, which reported 97,894 coronavirus cases in a single day on Sept. 17, according to India's health ministry.

The United States has recorded more than 9,079,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 230,000 deaths as of Saturday afternoon, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

It took only 14 days for the country to add one million new cases from 8 million to 9 million, the fastest rate since the pandemic began.

Confirmed cases and deaths have skyrocketed across the United States in recent days. The surge in cases was not driven by an increasing number of tests, according to the COVID Tracking Project, because the cases increase rate far outpaced the test growth.

The country reported a record number of tests at 8.2 million, but the case growth was 24 percent, compared with test growth of 9 percent.