translated from Spanish: U.S. surpasses half a million people killed by covid-19

The United States surpassed half a million people killed by covid-19, a grim record that no other country in the world is approaching and which is being met at a time when President Joe Biden’s government is accelerating the vaccination campaign.
After 16.40 local time in the U.S. (21.40 GMT), Johns Hopkins University’s independent count recorded 500,071 deaths from the disease and 28,168,735 million contagions.
The threshold of 400,000 dead had been exceeded only a month ago, on 19 January, on the eve of Biden’s investiture, which has made the fight against the pandemic one of his government’s priorities.
“More Americans have died in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War together,” said Biden, who added that he and the First Lady, Jill Biden, would keep a minute’s silence with Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff.
The most affected country in absolute terms
The United States is the most affected country in the world in absolute terms by the coronavirus, with 28 million contagions and half a million dead, according to data from this Baltimore-based university.
For Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), these figures “are a tragic reminder of the magnitude of the pandemic and the loss it has inflicted” on people’s lives and communities.
“We haven’t seen anything like this in over 100 years, since the 1918 pandemic,” Biden’s counselor Anthony Fauci said Sunday.
The United States announced its first death in February last year and surpassed the mark of 100,000 dead three months later. The 200,000 deaths were reached after another four months and after just under three months it reached 300,000 deaths.

Original source in Spanish

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