The coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the U.S. as the nation reported a record number of people dying from COVID-19 in a single day again.

More than 4,400 people across the country were reported dead from the virus on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins Universitys count . The previous record for daily deaths was hit only last week, when over 4,100 people died in one day.

The country also hit other grim milestones for the virus in recent weeks, including peak rates of new infections and hospitalizations, The Washington Post reported .

Since the pandemic began last year, more than 22.8 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus and more than 381,000 people have died.

Black and Latinx people have been disproportionately hard hit, being around four times as likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 as white people, and nearly three times as likely to die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .