WASHINGTON: The United States passed another grim coronavirus milestone Monday as the death toll from the virus climbed past 130,000, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The country also posted a worrying number of new daily infections, at 54,999 — a few thousand shy of the record set just days ago — and 357 new deaths.
The country has reported a total of 2,931,142 Covid-19 cases and 130,248 deaths, the university reported.
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