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The cumulative death toll from COVID-19 in the United States has surpassed 900,000.
After hearing the news, President Biden repeatedly urged the public to vaccinate, saying that the vaccine saves himself and his neighbors.
Reporter Kang Seong-ok reports.
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The United States, the world’s most powerful country, has suffered the disgrace of being the country with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world.
In the two years from the beginning of 2020 to the last 4 days, a total of 904,228 people have died due to COVID-19.
According to Worldometer, an international statistics site, the records of Brazil’s 630,000, India’s 500,000 and Russia’s 330,000 are overwhelming.
In the United States, regarding 2,700 people die per million people, ranking 20th in the world in terms of population, Archyde.com estimates.
In terms of population, the cumulative number of deaths is 21 times that of Korea.
In the United States, in particular, more than 100,000 people have died in less than two months since December 12, last year, when the spread of Omicron began.
Omicron mutations are less severe than delta mutations, but due to their stronger transmission power, the number of confirmed cases has increased, resulting in a large number of hospitalized patients and deaths.
The high mortality rate in the United States is due to the fact that vaccination rates lag behind other high-income countries and that the elderly and vulnerable populations are less vaccinated, the New York Times analyzed.
In the United States, 12% of people over the age of 65 have not been vaccinated, and 43% have not received a booster dose.
“The 250 million Americans who have received at least one dose of the vaccine are protecting themselves, their families and communities,” Biden said in a statement. urged to vaccinate.
This is YTN Kang Seong-ok.
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