Bogota, Colombia (AP Photo / Fernando Vergara)

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June 05, 2021 - The

United States

has reached 33,342,821 Covid cases and 596,996 deaths, according to independent tally from Johns Hopkins University.

There were 605 more deaths yesterday than Thursday and 17,603 new infections.

California is now the state most affected by the pandemic with 63,398 deaths, followed by New York (53,416), Texas (51,676), Florida (36,973), Pennsylvania (27,325), New Jersey (26,265) and Illinois (25,282).

Other states with high death tolls include Georgia (20,942), Michigan (20,511), Ohio (19,980), Massachusetts (17,903), and Arizona (17,673).   



In terms of infections, California has 3,793,766, followed by Texas with 2,961,257, third is Florida with 2,329,867 and New York is fourth with 2,104,539. The provisional death toll - 596,996 - far exceeds the lower limit of the White House's initial estimates, which at best predicted between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic. US President Joe Biden has predicted that a total of more than 600,000 people in the country will die from the virus. 



As for vaccines, approximately 169.7 million people (51.1% of the population) have received at least one dose, of which 137.4 million (41.4%) are already fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 



The

Colombia

yesterday for the first time passed the barrier of 30,000 positive cases of Covid-19 in one day, a figure that shows that the third peak of the pandemic continues to be unstoppable in the country, for a total of 3,518,046 infections so far. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the country added 537 deaths today, bringing the total to 90,890. The highest number of positive cases in the last 24 hours occurred in Bogotà, with 11,398 infections, the highest number since the beginning of the health emergency and which has led to more than one million infections in the capital.



The country, which recorded a record of infections in the first four days of June, is going through a dramatic and interminable third peak of the pandemic for which the hospital units are totally collapsing. The third wave, the deadliest of the health emergency so far, began last April when infections and deaths increased after the Easter holidays, but the authorities have been warning for weeks of the epidemiological risk represented by the anti-government demonstrations that have been going on since over a month.