The United States now has more deaths from Covid than soldiers killed in 1939-1945

Joe Biden recalled, barely inducted: his country will soon enter "the deadliest phase of the virus".

The toll of the coronavirus in the United States has indeed exceeded that of American soldiers killed during World War II since Wednesday.

This is a very symbolic assessment: the world's leading power has now deplored 405,400 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

The most bereaved country in absolute terms, the United States is also the most affected country in terms of the number of cases (more than 24.4 million).

According to a report released Wednesday, the pandemic has killed a total of at least 2,058,226 worldwide.

The fight against the pandemic, one of Biden's priorities

The American toll of the epidemic had exceeded at the end of April that of American soldiers killed in two decades during the conflict in Vietnam, a threshold with a strong symbolic significance as this war remains one of the greatest traumas experienced by Americans in the 20th century. century.

Invested Wednesday in Washington, Joe Biden reaffirmed that the fight against the pandemic would be one of his priorities.

Among the first measures, he ordered the return of the United States to the World Health Organization (WHO), after the withdrawal decided by his predecessor Donald Trump in 2020, and signed a decree making the wearing of the mask and mandatory physical distancing for US officials working in federal buildings.

"We must put aside politics and finally face this pandemic as a Nation," he insisted, while Donald Trump has constantly minimized the health crisis.