Covid: the United States exceeds half a million deaths from the pandemic – USA and Canada – International

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, paid tribute this Monday to the more than half a million killed by covid-19 in the country and assured that “there is light in the dark”, before observing a minute of silence with Vice President Kamala Harris for the deceased.

The United States surpassed half a million deaths from covid-19 on Monday, a grim record that no other country in the world comes close to and which is fulfilled at a time when the President’s government Joe biden is accelerating the campaign
vaccination.

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After 4:40 p.m. m, the independent count of the Johns Hopkins University registered 500,071 deaths from the disease and 28,168,735 million infections.

It’s terrible, it’s horrible, “said the immunologist on Sunday. Anthony Fauci, advisor to Joe Biden. “We have not seen anything like it for 100 years, since the 1918 pandemic,” the expert told CNN.

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The first death from covid-19 in the United States It was announced on February 29 and on May 27, three months later, the country already registered 100,000 deaths from the virus. At the end of January 2021 they passed the figure of 400,000.

“It is something that will go down in history. In decades, people will still talk about this moment when so many people died,” Fauci said.

The president of United States, Joe biden, confirmed that the fight against the pandemic would be one of his absolute priorities. “500,000! There are 70,000 (people) more than all the Americans killed during World War II, in a period of four years,” the president said in a speech at a Pfizer vaccine factory.

“We ask (Americans) to join us in remembering, in healing, in finding purpose in the task ahead, in showing that there is light in the dark,” Biden said in an emotional televised address from the House. White.

The North American country has been one of the pioneers in the development of vaccines and in their application. Currently they register an average of 1.7 million vaccines applied each day. Biden aims to reach 600 million doses, the total for the population, by the end of July.

Approximately 63 million people have already received one of the two vaccines licensed in the United States, Pfizer and Moderna. In turn, 18 million already have the second dose.

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“For some of you,” he continued, “it has been a year, a month, a week, a day, even an hour. And I know that when you look at that empty chair at the kitchen table, everything comes back (to mind). , no matter how much time has passed, as if it had happened just at the moment when you look at the scene. “

For this reason, he indicated that, as a nation, the Americans should not allow this situation to continue and asked them to remain alert, in addition to maintaining social distance, wearing a mask and going to be vaccinated when their turn comes.

“We must end the politics and misinformation that has divided families, communities in the country, which have already claimed many lives. It is not that Democrats and Republicans are dying from the virus, they are our fellow Americans, our neighbors, friends, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands, wife … “, he listed.

After his speech, the president accompanied by the first lady, Jill Biden, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, observed a minute of silence for the deceased on the south porch of the White House.

Biden ordered this Monday that the flags of all federal buildings in the country, including the White House, and official bodies abroad, such as embassies, fly at half mast for the next five days as a sign of mourning.

EFE

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