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Donald Trump admits more will die as US set to lift lockdown to save economy
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US President Donald Trump has admitted more US citizens will die as it gets set to end the lockdown – but he defiantly added “we have to get our country open”.
The US has a far larger reported coronavirus death toll than any other country in the world. One and a quarter million Americans are confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19, with numbers still climbing sharply.
Currently, 72,275 have died, with a further 16,179 patients in a critical condition. Deaths per million of population statistic – a key measure of how well a country is handling the pandemic – is 218.
Trump's own predictions of how many Americans would die have varied – from as little as “50,000 to 60,000” on April 17 to “anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 deaths” on
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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