The United States began the year 2021 by crossing a grim new threshold on Friday with 20 million identified cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, which are the benchmark.
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The world's largest power deplores more than 346,400 deaths from the coronavirus, making it the most bereaved country in the world by the epidemic, in absolute value.