Biden mourns one million American lives lost to pandemic
President Joe Biden mourned the one million American lives lost to the pandemic on Thursday, and said flags will be flown at half-staff at the White House and all public buildings, grounds, military posts and naval vessels until sunset on May 16 to honor the dead.
Just last week, the WHO’s new estimates show that the full death toll associated either directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2021, is about 15 million, or more than double the 6.24 million count aggregated by Johns Hopkins at the time. COVID cases are rising across the U.S. again driven by the BA.2 variant of omicron, and two other subvariants that appear to be even more infectious. The two, named BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1, were highlighted by health officials in New York State recently.
The WHO said that COVID-19 fatalities in Europe passed the two million mark on Thursday, AFP reported. Coronavirus Update: MarketWatch’s daily roundup has been curating and reporting all the latest developments every weekday since the coronavirus pandemic began• North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping out the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world, the Associated Press reported.
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