The United States crossed the bar of 80,000 deaths linked to the new coronavirus on Monday, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University, a dramatic toll - the worst officially recorded by a country - expected to further increase in the coming weeks . The United States is, according to official reports, the country most affected in terms of both the number of deaths and the number of cases recorded (regardless of the size of its population). New York City alone accounts for a quarter of the deaths, with nearly 20,000 deaths.
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