Washington: According to the John Hopkins University Covid- 19 Resource Center, the number of Covid-19 related deaths in the United States has exceeded 2, 50,000. The United States has confirmed more than 11.4 million cases of Covid-19 since the first infection was detected in late January, the data showed on Wednesday.

New York State reported the highest number of fatalities at 34,173, followed by Texas in the second place with 20,147 deaths, Xinhua news agency reported. The states of California, Florida and New Jersey have registered more than 16,000 deaths, the tally showed. States with more than 9,000 fatalities also include Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The US has the world’s highest caseload and death toll, accounting for more than 18 per cent of the global deaths.

The country reached the grim milestone of 200,000 Covid- 19 deaths on September 22 and the number climbed to a quarter of a million in nearly two months. US daily fatalities caused by Covid-19 hit 1,707 on Tuesday. Meanwhile, an updated model forecast by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington has revealed that a total of 438,941 Americans might die of the virus by March 1, 2021, based on current projection scenario.