The United States now mourns more victims of the corona than those who fell in the First World War

More than 700 patients still succumbed to COVID-19 In more than a day in the United States, the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed that of the US military, which fell on the front lines of World War I.

740 deaths were recorded in 24 hours, according to the Johns Hopkins University count until 20:30 yesterday Tuesday (local time 03:30 today Wednesday Cyprus time). All the dead because of her COVID-19 in the country thus amounted to 116.850, in other words exceeded the number of American soldiers who had been killed in the Great War (116.500, according to data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs). The pandemic was already surpassing that of the American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War in late April, another landmark with heavy symbolism, given the collective trauma it had inflicted on Americans in the 20th century.

The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic in absolute terms, both in terms of deaths and confirmed cases of infection, also has 2,13 million people infected with SARS. CoV-2. Some 583.500, however, recovered. On Sunday and Monday, the US recorded the lowest daily death toll since late March: less than 380 per 24 hours. But it was probably a continuation of the trend of mechanical data reduction every weekend. Although the country rarely exceeds the threshold of 1.000 deaths due to COVID-19 in 24 hours, SARS-CoV-2 infection cases remain around 20.000 per day, a level unchanged for weeks.

The so-called first wave of infections has certainly not ended, as the epidemic in the United States has spread from New York and the northeastern part of the country to a wide area from the American south to the west.

Source: KYPE