COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S. is nearing the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths, the world’s highest.
According to figures released by John Hopkins University early Wednesday, the estimated death toll in the U. S as at 01:30GMT on Wednesday stood at 98,902.
However, data company Dadax which runs worldometers.info said 100,579 people have died.
On Tuesday alone, fresh infections were 19,049 , while fatalities were 774.
U.S. caseload of infections is now 1,725,275 and still counting.
President Trump has been accused of causing the carnage, by not taking action when he should have.
But on Tuesday night, Trump tweeted a defence saying: “For all of the political hacks out there, if I hadn’t done my job well, & early, we would have lost 1 ½ to 2 Million People, as opposed to the 100,000 plus that looks like will be the number.
“That’s 15 to 20 times more than we will lose. I shut down entry from China very early!
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“One person lost to this invisible virus is too much, it should have been stopped at its source, China, but I acted very quickly, and made the right decisions.
“Many of the current political complainers thought, at the time, that I was moving far to fast, like Crazy Nancy!”
In other developments:
Latin America has become the centre of the global pandemic, the head of the Pan American Health Organization warns
The region now has more daily reported cases of Covid-19 than Europe and the US
The numbers in Venezuela are almost certainly much higher than reported, Human Rights Watch says.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be questioned by MPs later amid continued calls for his top adviser to resign
“Local lockdowns” could be introduced to tackle regional outbreaks in England, the health secretary says.
In South Korea, more than two million students return to school as a new cluster linked to a nightclub grows
Nearly 5.6 million cases and more than 350,000 deaths have been confirmed around the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.
