US digesting coronavirus death toll of 200,000

The United States was on Tuesday poised to log more than 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, as experts warned of further increases in infections and mortality as cooler fall weather moves people indoors.

The US, long the country worst hit by the virus, accounts for one-fifth of the global casualties from the pandemic. As of Tuesday morning, 199,890 people in the US had died from COVID-19, with more than 6.85 million infected with the virus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, which registered a global death toll of 965,575.

That means the US toll has nearly doubled in four months－in late May the country reported 100,000 deaths from the disease.