US coronavirus death toll hits 150,000, highest in the world by far

The death toll from the coronavirus in the US hit 150,000 on Wednesday, by the far the highest in the world, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.Brazil was second with over 88,000 deaths, followed by Britain at about 46,000.The bleak US milestone comes amid signs that the nation’s outbreak is beginning to stabilise in the Sun Belt but heating up in the Midwest, fuelled largely by young adults who are hitting bars, restaurants and gyms again.Johns Hopkins put the nation’s…

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