Joe Biden urges Americans not to ‘become numb to the sorrow ’ as death toll in the US surpasses 700,000
The Covid-19 death toll in the US has now surpassed 700,000 , despite the Covid-19 vaccines’ wide availability in what one expert called a “tragic and completely avoidable milestone”.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows that the US went just past 700,000 deaths on Friday; the US had previously reached 600,000 deaths in June. The country has had a total of 43.6m confirmed cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins.
