Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and lawmakers on December 14, 2021 participate in a moment of silence for the 800,000 American lives lost to Covid-19. Cases in the United States continue to rise amidst the holiday season and the Omicron variant. PHOTO | AFP
The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, crossed 800,000 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University showed.
