WASHINGTON: The US death toll from Covid-19 pandemic exceeded 900,000 on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Tracker.
Tolls have reached 800,000 dead in mid-December, only a month and half ago.
New cases that are linked to the omicron variant fall, but daily deaths are still up, with an average of 2,400 now, according to government figures.
“Inpatient stays high, stretching our health capacity and labor for their limits in several regions in the country,” said Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Covid deaths usually occur several weeks after the patient gets a virus, which explains why the death surge occurs slower than a new surge in case.
Americans continue to die because Covid is large because only 64 percent of the population is fully immunized, even though the vaccine is very effectively available.
The United States has the most covid death in absolute requirements, before Brazil and India, according to government figures.
Pandemic Covid has killed at least 5.7 million people worldwide since it began in December 2019, according to AFP calculations published on Friday.
But the World Health Organization said that victims could actually be two to three times higher.