Coronavirus deaths in the US hit another one-day high at over 4300 with the country's attention focused largely on the fallout from the siege at the Capitol.
The nation's overall death toll from Covid-19 has eclipsed 380,000, according to Johns Hopkins University, and is closing in fast on the number of Americans killed in World War II, or about 407,000. Confirmed infections have topped 22.8 million.
With the country simultaneously facing a political crisis and on edge over threats of more violence from far-right extremists, the US recorded 4327 deaths on Tuesday by Johns Hopkins' count. Arizona and California have been among the hardest-hit states.
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