U.S. coronavirus cases top 1 million, death toll surpasses Vietnam War casualties

The coronavirus cases in the U.S. have reached more than 1 million, as the nation grapples with around a third of all global number of infections, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The pandemic has killed 58,365 people so far in the U.S., since it officially arrived in the country in January, according to Johns Hopkins.

This made U.S. officials and public health specialists repeatedly compare the country’s coronavirus mitigation efforts to that of a war, and now coronavirus has taken more U.S. lives than the Vietnam War.

According to the U.S. National Archives, 58,220 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War, which erupted in 1955 and ended in 1975.

A large portion of U.S. coronavirus cases remain in New York state, where Governor Andrew Cuomo is currently testing around 20,000 people a day for the virus and is working with President Donald Trump to double that number.

The virus has hit every state in the U.S., disrupting daily life for millions of Americans as state and local leaders have shuttered nonessential businesses in a bid to control the spread of the pandemic, putting record numbers of people out of work.