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People handing out hand sanitizer on the streets in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday.Credit.Victor Moriyama for The New York Times
As the coronavirus continues its surge across the United States and Europe, where vaccinations recently began, total infections around the world have now topped 75 million.
In the United States, more than 128,000 people had been vaccinated as of Friday, according to a New York Times database tracking vaccinations. But that total is just slightly more than half the number of new cases reported across the country the same day.
The United States, the world’s largest coronavirus hot spot with more than 17.6 million people who have been infected over all, on Friday reported its first single-day caseload of more than 250,000 new infections.
CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2020 / 04:01 am (CNA).- Eight elderly religious sisters died of COVID-19 complications in one week at a retirement home for the School Sisters of Notre Dame near Milwaukee.
“Even though they’re older and most of the sisters that did go to God are in their late 80s, 90s … we didn’t expect them to go so, so quickly,” Sister Debra Marie Sciano, the provincial leader for School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, told the Associated Press. “So it was just very difficult for us.”
“We believe that each of these sisters, and and all the sisters, really, they’ve made a difference in this world,” Sciano said. “I just think it’s important that people know that, and that they were committed up until the end of their lives.”
These are 20 of the 18,000 people who died of COVID-19 in the US this week
These are 20 of the 18,000 people who died of COVID-19 in the US this weekhttps://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/these-are-20-of-the-18000-people-who-died-of-covid-19-in-the-us-this-week/slidelist/79807004.cms2020-12-19T06:23:38+05:30
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These are 20 of the 18,000 people who died of COVID-19 in the US this week
Aria BendixDec 19, 2020, 06:23 IST
Funeral director Michael Neel looks at the casket of George Trefren, a 90-year-old Korean War veteran who died of COVID-19 in April.Rick Wilking/Reuters
The US recorded roughly 18,000 deaths from COVID-19 this week alone.
Wednesday marked the deadliest day in the pandemic so far, with nearly 3,500 deaths reported.
Wednesday marked the deadliest day in the pandemic so far, with nearly 3,500 deaths reported.
Below are the names and brief stories of 20 people recently killed by the virus including the newly elected Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, a pioneering surgeon, and the first Black country superstar.
Charley Pride played music. William Norwood performed live-saving surgeries. Rosemary Shinohara worked long nights at the newsroom, picked blueberries, ran triathlons, and read mystery novels. Veronica Gutierrez, age 29, liked puzzles.
They all died of COVID-19, their deaths reported this week amid a tragic and unprecedented surge in infections and fatalities across the US. The US recorded nearly 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in the last seven days alone.