Washington US President Joe Biden will hold a minute’s silence and light a candle at the White House on Monday to commemorate 500,000 people who lost their lives in the country due to Covid-19. Nearly a year after the first case of corona virus death in the US, the number of dead in the country is expected to exceed five lakh on Monday.
The White House has said that Biden will also address an event organized in memory of those who lost their lives due to infection. She will be accompanied by first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Amhoff.
They will keep silence and light a candle in this ceremony. According to ‘John Hopkins’ University, about half a million people have died due to infection in a year. This number of the dead is equal to the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and the city of Atlanta. Dr. Anthony Fauchi, the country’s top infectious disease specialist, said, “It has never happened in the last 102 years since the influenza pandemic in 1918. “On January 19 in America, the number of people who died of infection crossed four lakhs.
