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Covid: Biden calls 500,000 death toll a ‘heartbreaking milestone’.

President Joe Biden has addressed the nation as the US passed the figure of 500,000 Covid-related deaths, the highest number of any country.

“As a nation, we can’t accept such a cruel fate. We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow,” he said.

The president and vice-president, and their spouses, then observed a moment of silence outside the White House during a candle-lighting ceremony.

Confirmed US infections now stand at 28.1 million, also a global record. What 500,000 US deaths look like “Today I ask all Americans to remember.

Remember those we lost and remember those we left behind,” President Biden said, calling for Americans to fight Covid together

Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC

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