US surpasses landmark of 20m coronavirus cases on New Year's Day
by Joanna Walters in New York and agency from World news | The Guardian on (#5CA1B)
US has almost twice as many confirmed coronavirus cases as the next worst-hit country, India, and almost 350,000 have died
The US marked the first day of 2021 by surpassing the dismal landmark of 20 million coronavirus cases, as hospitals, undertakers, vaccine administrators and ordinary families struggled across the nation.
More than 10,000 Americans died in the last three days of 2020 as the year finished with the pandemic, which has never been under control in the US since the start of the outbreak last January, breaking all the wrong world records.
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