A doctor prepares to administer a vaccine injection to Claudia Scott-Mighty, a patient care director at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Bronxville, N.Y. The second round of the vaccine increases its efficacy to 95%, according to Pfizer. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

US records 90,844 Covid deaths in January alone

On Jan 30, 2021

Close to 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded in the United States since New Year’s Day, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

So far in January, 90,844 deaths have been reported, a record monthly high, data on the university’s Covid dashboard showed.

Some 23,274 of those deaths were reported in the week 10 January to 16 January, itself a record week, with a further 22,652 reported over the following seven days.

According to Johns Hopkins, there have now been a total of 436,799 Covid deaths in the US since the pandemic began.

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