The US death count from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 900,000 on Friday, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker. The count had hit 800,000 dead in mid-December, just a month and a half ago.<br />''New cases linked to the Omicron variant are falling, but daily deaths are still rising, with an average of 2,400 now, according to government figures.<br />''<br />''Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, hospitalizations remain high, stretching our healthcare capacity and workforce to its limits in some areas of the country.<br />''<br />''In America, only 64 percent of the population is fully immunized, despite effective vaccines being widely available.<br />''<br />''The United States has the most Covid deaths in absolute terms, ahead of Brazil and India, according to government figures.<br />''The Covid pandemic has reportedly killed at least 5.7 million people worldwide since it began in December 2019.<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">But the World Health Organization says, the actual toll could be two to three times higher.</span><br />