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FILE: Biden had campaigned extensively on raising the national minimum wage to $15 an hour, from a rate of $7.25 that has stood since 2009.Picture:SAUL LOEB / AFP

Us coronavirus deaths

$1.9 trillion COVID plan clears US House, heads to Senate

By AFP

The bill is on track to be the second-largest US stimulus ever, after the $2 trillion package Donald Trump signed last March to fight the pandemic's devastating...

  • Maryland Cremation Services transporter Reggie Elliott brings the remains of a COVID-19 victim to his van from the hospital's morgue in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States on 24 December 2020. Picture: AFP

    This is why the US has the highest COVID-19 death toll

    Why does the world's leading power have the highest death toll and what lessons are American health specialists learning from the past year?

    540 days ago
  • Inside the hot zone medical staff monitor and treat sick patients infected with the COVID-19 virus at the UMASS Memorial DCU Center Field Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 13 January 2021. The centre was set up to relieve hospitals during the surge and allow for non critical patents to free up beds at the main hospital locations. Picture: Joseph Prezioso/AFP

    100 million cases worldwide, as US seeks to reset its COVID fight

    The United States, which passed 25 million confirmed cases last weekend, remains the country with the largest outbreak - and the largest death toll of over 420,000.

    567 days ago
  • Maryland Cremation Services transporter Reggie Elliott brings the remains of a COVID-19 victim to his van from the hospital's morgue in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States on 24 December 2020. Picture: AFP

    US virus deaths top WWII fatalities as Biden warns worst yet to come

    The United States remains the worst-hit country, with around a fifth of the two million global COVID-19 deaths, and new President Joe Biden has made the fight against the pandemic his administration's top priority.

    573 days ago
  • Sandra Lindsay(L), a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre on 14 December 2020 in the Queens borough of New York. Picture: AFP.

    Slow vaccine rollouts fuel worry as US logs record daily COVID death toll

    The United States broke its own record for the number of daily deaths from COVID-19 yet again on Tuesday, recording 3,936 fatalities in 24 hours.

    588 days ago
  • Maryland Cremation Services transporter Reggie Elliott brings the remains of a COVID-19 victim to his van from the hospital's morgue in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States on 24 December 2020. Picture: AFP

    US logs more than 3,900 COVID-19 deaths in new daily record: Johns Hopkins

    The country's leading infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, has warned that the worst of the pandemic was likely yet to come, with the death toll rising at an alarming rate in the winter months and after major holiday gatherings.

    594 days ago
  • FILE: Medical workers remove a body from a refrigerated truck outside of the Brooklyn Hospital on 31 March 2020 in New York City. Due to a surge in deaths caused by the coronavirus, hospitals are using refrigerated trucks to makeshift morgues. Picture: AFP.

    US COVID daily death toll surpasses 2,700, highest since April: monitor

    The new tally of 2,731 fatalities raises the overall known death toll in America to 273,181 since the pandemic started late last year.

    622 days ago
  • FILE:  President Donald Trump was accused of flouting the constitution by unilaterally extending a virus relief package. Picture: AFP

    US hits 5mn virus cases as Trump criticised over relief package

    The US on Sunday had added 47,197 new cases in 24 hours, with 532 additional deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

    737 days ago
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    US death toll soars as global virus cases top 19 mn

    The world's hardest-hit country, the United States, has seen a major coronavirus resurgence since the end of June, adding 2,060 deaths in 24 hours alone Thursday.

    741 days ago
  • A protestor holds a placard outside of the Trump National Golf Course as US President Donald Trump departs in his motorcade in Sterling, Virginia on 24 May 2020. The placard includes a front page of the New York Times which lists some of those who have died from the coronavirus. Picture: AFP.

    Trump fumes on Twitter as media slams pandemic golf outing

    The timing of his outing, as the nation approached a milestone in deaths from the pandemic, sparked widespread criticism in the media, with commentators recalling Donald Trump's own past attacks on Barack Obama for playing the game during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

    814 days ago
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