The Washington National Cathedral rings 700 times to mourn the 700,000 Americans who died from the new crown. The bells last about 70 minutes
[Global Network Comprehensive Report] According to the Associated Press and other media reports, on the evening of October 5, local time, the Washington National Cathedral rang 700 bells to mourn the 700,000 Americans who died due to the new crown epidemic.
According to reports, the bell sounded at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, once every 1,000 victims, the bell sounded for about 70 minutes.
On the same day, commemorative activities were held in many places in Washington at the same time. Under the Washington Monument, nearly 700,000 white flags were planted on the National Mall.
The cumulative number of deaths from the new crown in the United States reached 600,000 in June this year. On June 10, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., tolled 600 times in memory of the lives lost in the epidemic.
According to previous reports, on October 1, US Eastern Time, the cumulative number of deaths from the new crown in the United States exceeded 700,000, reaching 700,258.
According to news from the Russian Satellite News Agency on October 3, US President Biden issued a statement when the cumulative number of deaths from the new crown epidemic in the United States exceeded 700,000, calling on the public to be vaccinated.
The latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States show that as of 9:21 on the 6th, Beijing time, there were a total of 235,794,170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, and a total of 4,816,058 deaths. Among them, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States reached 43,945,725, and the number of deaths reached 705116 cases.