Death toll from COVID-19 in US surpasses 700,000 people - Johns Hopkins University
Saturday, 2 October 2021 (11:06 IST)
Washington:The number of novel coronavirus deaths in the United States has surpassed 700,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
As of 01:00 GMT on Saturday, the data showed 700,258 Americans have died and more than 43.61 million have been infected to date.
The Spanish flu pandemic from 1918 to 1919 killed about 675,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Researchers at the University of Washington project that an additional 100,000 Americans will die during the forthcoming winter.(UNI)
