Coronavirus deaths reach 61,000 in USA

Coronavirus has killed more than 61,000 people in the United States, just days after passing 50,000 U.S. deaths on Friday, Johns Hopkins University reports.

There have been more than 3.1 million confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus worldwide, with more than 224,000 deaths, according to the university.

More than 27,000 people have died in Italy, and more than 26,000 in the United Kingdom.

The United States has had more than 1 million confirmed cases, and around 5.7 million people in the U.S. have been tested for the COVID-19 virus, Johns Hopkins University reported.

More than 17,000 people have died of coronavirus in New York City, the university says.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the 2019-20 seasonal flu has killed from 24,000 to 62,000 people nationally. A 2009 swine flu pandemic killed more than 12,000 people in the United States.

More than 58,200 Americans died in the two-decade-long Vietnam war, NPR reported.

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