The United States on Thursday hailed progress in turning around its troubled Covid-19 vaccine rollout, and the European Union said it was also on track to meet jab targets as global coronavirus deaths topped 2.5 million.
The United States is the world’s hardest-hit country, with coronavirus deaths crossing the 500,000 mark earlier this week. Biden said that there would be “enough supply” for all adult Americans by the end of July. The coronavirus has hit especially hard in Brazil’s impoverished favelas, among indigenous communities and in the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus, where there have been haunting scenes of mass graves and patients suffocating to death with no oxygen.
In total, 2,500,172 deaths and 112,618,488 cases have been reported, with almost half of the fatalities occurring in just five countries: the United States, Brazil, Mexico, India and Britain, according to an Agence France-Presse count based on official figures.
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