Sun 03 October 2021:
According to Johns Hopkins University on Saturday, the number of individuals killed by the coronavirus in the United States has topped 700,000.
The death toll rose to 700,327 with 2,457 more casualties in the past 24 hours.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, which has continued to affect mostly southern states in the country, the number of cases increased 159,032 in the last 24 hours and exceeded 43,621,268.
The United States finds itself having notched the most fatalities in the world, far exceeding other frontrunners such as Brazil and India, and facing a resurgence in cases due to the prominence of the highly contagious Delta variant.
While the latest global coronavirus wave peaked in late August, the virus continues to spread rapidly, particularly in the United States.
The vaccination campaign launched by US authorities in December — which had reached a peak in April, with sometimes more than four million injections per day — has meanwhile slowed considerably.
Coronavirus misinformation has been rampant in the country, and masking remains a political issue, dividing many Americans.
The state of California ranks first in the country with more than 4,729,000 cases, followed by Texas with over 4,077,000 and Florida has an excess of 3,620,000.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, 77% of adults received at least one dose and approximately 66% received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
More than 214.5 million people received the first dose, and over 184.9 million received the second dose in the US.
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