The United States recorded 1,297 new deaths from coronavirus in 24 hours on Thursday, according to the daily count of Johns Hopkins University, which refers, at 8:30 p.m. Thursday (2:30 a.m. in Paris). This brings to 101,573 the total number of deaths deplored in the country, by far the most bereaved by the pandemic, the symbolic bar of 100,000 deaths having been crossed the day before.
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After tweeting and retweeting more than forty times on other subjects since the crossing of this threshold, without referring to it, President Donald Trump expressed his condolences on Thursday to the relatives of those who died of the virus.
Since the first death of Covid-19 announced at the end of February, the United States has recorded more than 1.7 million cases, according to the count continuously updated by Johns Hopkins University. Experts, including immunologist Anthony Fauci, adviser to the White House, however agree that these official reports are likely to be below reality.