U.S. COVID-19 death toll tops 700,000 — Johns Hopkins University

NEW YORK: OCT. 2 – The United States reached the grim milestone of 700,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday evening, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

With the national case count topping 43.6 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 700,258 as of 8:21 p.m. local time (0021 GMT on Saturday), according to the university’s tally.