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Washington, Feb 22 (EFE/EPA).- The United States on Monday surpassed half a million deaths from Covid-19, a somber record far in excess of any other country's pandemic fatalities and which comes at a time when the Joe Biden administration is accelerating the vaccination campaign.As of 5 pm US Eastern Time, according to the independent tally being kept by The Johns Hopkins University, 500,071 people had died in the US from Covid-19 and 28,174,133 confirmed coronavirus cases had been detected since the pandemic began more than a year ago. (Camera: WILL OLIVER). SHOT LIST: WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL RINGS ITS BELLS AND THE US FLAG FLIES AT HALF-STAFF ABOVE THE WHITE HOUSE TO HONOR COVID-19 VICTIMS, IN WASHINGTON, DC, US.

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