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The United States has continued to lead countries with fatalities from coronavirus as its death toll surpassed 100,000 on Wednesday.
Data from Johns Hopkins University Centre for Systems Science and Engineering revealed that 100,047 people in the US had died from the pandemic, making the US the first country to reach the six-figure, grim milestone.
The US also leads the world with infected cases, having recorded over 1.69 million confirmed cases.
New York City is leading with 29,370 deaths and 364,965 confirmed cases, followed by New Jersey, which has 11,339 deaths and 156,628 confirmed cases, according to CNN.
Despite the numbers, US President, Donald Trump has continued to pressure state governors to reopen their economies and allow the “transition to greatness”; his newly adopted slogan to proceed full speed ahead.
Trump bragged on Twitter about early gains in the US stock market indices and insisted that, “there will be ups and downs, but next year will be one of the best ever!”
However, according to Aljazeera, he was largely silent on coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, choosing instead to rail against Twitter for alleged censorship and “Obamagate“, an unproven idea that former President Barack Obama with his then-Vice President Joe Biden and a collection of intelligence operatives concocted the theory that Trump was colluding with Russia in order to win the 2016 election.
A total of 353,414 people have died of COVID-19 complication worldwide, while nearly 5.6 million people have been infected.
