The United States of America has recorded the world’s highest numbers of Covid-19 deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The US coronavirus deaths hit another grim milestone on Friday topping 50,000, as the number of lives lost in April rises by an average of 2,000 a day.
This is according to the Worldometers website, which tracks the pandemic.
The Johns Hopkins website also showed the death toll inching closer to 50,000.
The total number of US cases hit 868,000 with many states yet to report early on Friday.
As per Friday April 24 morning, the worldometers website showed that the total number of Covid-19 cases in the world are at 2,725,972.
The world has so far recorded 191, 061 deaths, with 749, 516 recoveries.
The United States saw its first documented death from the novel coronavirus on February 29, 2020.
The day before that Feb. 29 death, US President Donald Trump claimed that it was Democrats who were “politicizing” the coronavirus and said it was “their new hoax” to criticize his administration’s response to it.
A week later, the president was touting poll numbers and saying, “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”
