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Coronavirus: US death toll passes 50,000 in world's deadliest outbreak

The US virus death toll has surpassed 50,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, in what is the world's deadliest Covid-19 outbreak.

More than 3,000 deaths came in the last 24 hours, and there are now over 870,000 confirmed cases nationwide.

But the US still has a lower mortality rate than most European nations based on current case counts, as the White House task force has emphasised.

The grim news comes as parts of the US reopen after weeks of lockdown.

Some hair salons, bowling alleys and other businesses are opening on Friday in Georgia, Alaska and Oklahoma.

The US has by far the highest death toll and case count in the world.

However, it has a population of 330 million, much higher than other worst affected countries such as Spain and Italy.Dr Deborah Birx, an expert on the White House Covid-19 task force, has said the country has "one of the lowest mortality rates in the entire world".

On a per capita basis the current reported US death rate is lower than Spain, Italy, France, Belgium and the UK.The US is top of the grim league table for reported coronavirus deaths, but that's not the whole picture.

Part of the reason is population - many countries in Europe have reported more deaths per head of population than the US and Europe as a whole has reported more deaths overall.

But beware of comparing huge countries in this way.

The picture in New York is very different to the picture in the rest of the US and the same goes for other countries.

Italy really has two epidemics - one in the north of the country that overran healthcare and another down south that is much less advanced.

Death rates also depend on how you count - France's figures include care homes and Belgium's figures also include suspected Covid cases, making their figures look a lot worse.

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