(Washington) For the first time in nearly three and a half months, the United States recorded fewer than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Monday, according to benchmark data from Johns Hopkins University.
Posted on March 8, 2021 at 9:25 p.m.
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In 24 hours, 749 people died from the coronavirus, far from the peak of 4,473 deaths recorded on the day of January 12 alone. We have to go back to November 29 to find a number of victims below the thousand mark, at 822 dead.
The slowdown in the epidemic is therefore continuing in the United States, which is finding levels of contamination and death similar to those before Halloween, Thanksgiving and other end-of-year holidays synonymous with many trips, large gatherings and ‘increased spread of the virus.
For President Joe Biden, whose colossal 1900 billion aid plan successfully passed the Senate stage on Saturday, this is second good news, which reinforces his very large-scale vaccination strategy.
The vaccine injection campaign launched in December in the United States is indeed in full swing, with nearly 10% of the American population, or about 31.5 million people, having now received the two doses necessary for the vaccines of Pfizer or Monderna, or the single dose in the case of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
And health authorities took part in the ambient optimism on Monday by announcing that vaccinated people could meet together in small groups indoors without wearing a mask and without respecting social distancing.
However, they must continue to respect these precautionary measures in the presence of unvaccinated people from several different households, and in public spaces.
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