US to surpass grim milestone of 200k Covid-19 deaths

The death toll from the spread of coronavirus in the United States was approaching over 200,000 on Monday, more than double the number of fatalities in India - the country reporting the second-highest number of cases in the world.

The US, on a weekly average, is now losing about 800 lives each day to the virus, according to a Reuters tally. That is down from a peak of 2,806 daily deaths recorded on April 15...