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The US death count from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 900,000 on Friday, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker. The count had hit 800,000 dead in mid-December, just a month and a half ago.
New cases linked to the Omicron variant are falling, but daily deaths are still rising, with an average of 2,400 now, according to government figures.
Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, hospitalizations remain high, stretching our healthcare capacity and workforce to its limits in some areas of the country.
In America, only 64 percent of the population is fully immunized, despite effective vaccines being widely available.
The United States has the most Covid deaths in absolute terms, ahead of Brazil and India, according to government figures.
The Covid pandemic has reportedly killed at least 5.7 million people worldwide since it began in December 2019.
But the World Health Organization says, the actual toll could be two to three times higher.