‘Heartbreaking milestone’: US President Biden marks 500,000 Covid-19 deaths at candlelight event

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: US President Joe Biden attended a candlelight ceremony and a moment of silence on February 22, 2021, to mark the country reaching a grim milestone of 500,000 deaths from Covid-19. While the number of deaths, new cases and hospitalisations has dropped in recent weeks across the country, and the pace of vaccination is slowly increasing, the US president warned that fatalities could still go “well over” 600,000. Support us: