Covid-19: less than 1,000 dead in the United States for the first time since November

For the first time in nearly three and a half months, the United States has recorded less than 1,000 deaths from Covid-19, Monday, March 8, according to data from Johns-Hopkins University, which refers.

In 24 hours, 749 people died from the coronavirus, far from the peak of 4,473 deaths recorded on the day of January 12 alone.

We have to go back to November 29 to find a number of victims below the thousand mark, at 822 dead.

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Covid-19: Joe Biden speeds up vaccination by forced march across the United States

The slowdown in the epidemic is therefore continuing in the United States, which is finding levels of contamination and death similar to those before Halloween, Thanksgiving and other end-of-year holidays synonymous with many trips, large gatherings and 'increased spread of the virus.

For President Joe Biden, whose colossal $ 1.9 trillion aid plan successfully passed the Senate stage on Saturday, this is second good news, which reinforces his very large-scale vaccination strategy.

10% of the vaccinated population

The vaccine injection campaign launched in December in the United States is indeed in full swing, with nearly 10% of the American population, or about 31.5 million people, having now received the two doses necessary for the vaccines of Pfizer or Moderna, or the single dose in the case of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

This is, according to CNN, more than the total number of Americans infected with the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.

The Biden administration is now showing its ambition: that the entire population be vaccinated before the end of May.

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And the health authorities participated Monday in the ambient optimism by announcing that the vaccinated people could henceforth meet among themselves in small groups indoors without wearing a mask and without respecting social distancing.

However, they must continue to respect these precautionary measures in the presence of unvaccinated people from several different households, and in public spaces.