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US coronavirus death toll passes 200,000


US coronavirus death toll passes 200,000

The death toll in the U.S. from coronavirus surged past 200,000 as the country recorded more than 6.8 million confirmed Covid-19 cases as of Tuesday (Sep 22). Leading experts warned that Covid-19 cases may surge in fall and winter in the United States, reports said. Months into the pandemic, the United States has currently recorded more than 6,894,586 confirmed Covid-19 cases, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Still, the actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and other data issues.

The U.S. coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). More than 6.8 million people are known to have been infected in the U.S., more than in any other country. The milestone comes amid an increase in cases in a number of states, including North Dakota and Utah.

JHU reported the new death toll of 200,005 on Tuesday (Sep 22). The university has been collecting US and global coronavirus data since the outbreak began late last year in China. The first case in the U.S. was confirmed in January.

President Trump's administration has been repeatedly criticised over its handling of the outbreak.

"Due to Donald Trump's lies and incompetence in the past six months, [we] have seen one of the greatest losses of American life in history," Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Monday.

"With this crisis, a real crisis, a crisis that required serious presidential leadership, he just wasn't up to it. He froze. He failed to act. He panicked. And America has paid the worst price of any nation in the world."

But on the same day, Mr Trump said he and his administration had done "a phenomenal job" and gave himself an "A+" for his handling of the pandemic.

He said the U.S. was "rounding the corner on the pandemic, with or without a vaccine".

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the first Covid-19 case in the United States on Jan 21. Four months later, on May 27, the U.S. death toll reached 100,000.

Recently U.S. campuses have become the new front for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic as more students are returning to schools.  As of Sep 14, The New York Times counted more than 88,000 cases and 60 deaths at 1,190 campuses nationwide.

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