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The US death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 600,000 on Tuesday, although authorities hailed progress towards a return to normality as its vaccination programme promised to turn the page on one of the worst health crises in its history. The United States has racked up by far the largest national death toll – ahead of Brazil and India – after a heavily-criticised early response to the pandemic, but has since organised among the world’s most effective vaccine roll-outs. “There’s still too many lives being lost,” President Joe Biden said, noting that despite the daily number of dead dropping sharply, the continuing...
