The White House confirmed that, by May 12, more than a million people died in the US due to the coronavirus, so President Joe Biden called not to let our guard down, to test and vaccinate the population and treat those infected.
"Today we reached a tragic milestone: one million American lives lost to COVID-19," the president said in a statement, coinciding with a new increase in daily cases, registered in his country for a month.
The increase occurs in a context in which the mask is no longer mandatory, although its use indoors is recommended, and in which a fourth dose of the vaccine is available only for those over 50 years of age.
"A million empty chairs around the table. Each one of them is an irreplaceable loss. Each one leaves behind a family, a community and a nation forever changed by this pandemic," the US president said in quoted statements. by the Europa Press agency .
The rebound in infections is due to subvariants of Ómicron, more transmissible than the previous ones, in a country where 66% of the population is vaccinated -90% in the case of those over 65 years of age-.
Since the start of the pandemic, the figures from member countries gathered by the World Health Organization (WHO) give a total of 5.4 million deaths from Covid-19 in these two years. But the WHO stated last Thursday that the pandemic caused between 13 and 17 million deaths in the world, from January 2020 to December 2021. This is triple the total of official balances, showing the devastation of the worst pandemic ever experienced. on the planet for a century.
