Hello to you. The number of people who have died from covid 19 in the United States has now officially exceeded 100,000. The actual numbers are likely to be higher than that, but it is clear that in the past three months more americans have died from infection than during the korean war, the vietnam war and the conflict in iraq combined. Lets take a look at how the us got to this point. The first death in the country was reported on february the 29th. On march the 13th, President Trump declared a National Emergency as schools were closed. Stay at home orders were issued in california, new york and washington, dc. Within a month, the us surpassed italy with just over 20,000 now the highest death rate in the world. Then President Trump released his guidelines for reopening the country, as anti lockdown protests broke out. Into may, and the president said his task force would continue indefinitely, 2a hours after announcing it would close. The death toll then stood at 71,000. Nowjust thre
Hello to you. The number of people who have died from covid 19 in the United States has now officially exceeded 100,000. The actual numbers are likely to be higher than that, but it is clear that in the past three months more americans have died from infection than during the korean war, the vietnam war and the conflict in iraq combined. But the number of new cases has slowed and more states are lifting their lockdowns to ease the economic impact. 0ur north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, reports from washington. Happy birthday to you. Friends and relatives of more than 100,000 people in america can nowjust cling to the memories of happier times before the coronavirus. My father was a really caring person. And he just wanted to help people and he was really outgoing. He thought he was really funny. Doug was one of the first confirmed deaths back on the first of march. As somebody who lost someone so close to them and was someone obviously very, very dear to you so early on, when