US Covid-19 death toll passes 400,000 on Trump’s last day in office

The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has passed 400,000 according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

There have now been 24.2 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the nation since the virus began to spread in February 2020.

The grim milestone was passed on the final day of the Trump administration and just over a month after the death toll hit 300,000.

It is expected that half a million people will have died from the virus by some point in mid-February.