Since the pandemic began, more than 800,000 people have died in connection with a corona infection in the United States.
This came out on Tuesday evening (local time) from data from the University of Johns Hopkins (JHU) in Baltimore. The threshold of 700,000 deaths was exceeded in early October.
The Johns Hopkins website is updated regularly and usually shows a slightly higher level than the official figures. In individual cases, however, the numbers have also been revised downwards. According to the US health authority CDC, around 796,000 people had died in connection with the coronavirus by Tuesday.
Biden: “tragic milestone”
US President Joe Biden spoke of the 800,000 deaths as a “tragic milestone”. He expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased. At the same time, he appealed to Americans to get vaccinated and to follow other precautions such as wearing masks. Regarding Omikron, he said: “At the beginning of winter and faced with a new variant, we must be determined to continue fighting this virus together.”
Most corona deaths worldwide
No country in the world has registered more corona deaths than the United States, which is home to around 330 million people. Brazil is currently in second place with a good 600,000 deaths, followed by India with almost 500,000 victims. According to official figures, around 300,000 deaths each in Mexico and Russia. However, experts assume that the number of unreported cases is higher in all countries, because many deaths and corona infections are not even reported to the authorities.
The number of detected infections in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic had only passed the 50 million threshold on Monday. Around 120,000 new infections are currently reported there every day, almost exclusively with the Delta variant. Every day, an average of around 1,100 people die from the virus, according to the CDC.
Home page – .
