{"id":4488,"date":"2021-02-23T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T07:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/500000-deaths-from-covid-19-in-the-us-biden-a-sad-moment\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T07:36:53","slug":"500000-deaths-from-covid-19-in-the-us-biden-a-sad-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/500000-deaths-from-covid-19-in-the-us-biden-a-sad-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"500,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the US, Biden: A sad moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"firstP\">\n<p>US President Joe Biden has described the more than 500,000 deaths from coronavirus in the United States as a &#8220;grim and sad moment&#8221; and called on the country to unite against the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I urge all Americans to remember &#8211; to remember those we have lost and those we have left behind,&#8221; Biden said in a televised address on February 22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also urge them to act, to be vigilant, to keep their distance, to put on their masks and to be vaccinated when it is their turn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He urged Americans to enjoy the memory of missing family members and referred to his personal experience in dealing with such losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, the path through grief is to find purpose,&#8221; Biden said in an emotional address from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Americans should show determination to end the policies and misinformation that are dividing families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to fight this as a person, like the United States,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, then walked out of the White House to observe a moment of silence in front of the 500 candles representing the high death toll as the military band performed the song. Amazing Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, flags were hoisted at half-staff in the White House and other federal buildings in the United States, as well as in embassies around the world, to commemorate the lives of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has registered 500,159 coronavirus victims as of Feb. 22, according to Johns Hopkins University data.<\/p>\n<p>That figure is about one-fifth of the global death toll, which has reached nearly 2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The US, which has a population of 330 million, or about 5 percent of the world&#8217;s population, has recorded the highest number of casualties.<\/p>\n<p>This country is currently facing the third wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Although the number of new cases of infection, hospitalization and deaths has dropped dramatically as vaccination rates are rising, health officials believe the pandemic is far from over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>top channel<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\tvar ajaxurl = \"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\";<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Google Analytics\n\t\twindow.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n\t\tfunction gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n\t\tgtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>\t\tgtag('config', 'UA-7855069-1');<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Facebook\n\t\twindow.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n\t\t\tFB.init({\n\t\t\t\tappId      : '1715618661991455',\n\t\t\t\txfbml      : true,\n\t\t\t\tversion    : 'v2.10'\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t\tFB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n\t\t};<\/p>\n<p>\t\t(function(d, s, id){\n\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\tjs.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t   <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/2021\/02\/23\/500000-vdekjet-nga-covid-19-ne-shba-biden-moment-pikellues\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] US President Joe Biden has described the more than 500,000 deaths from coronavirus in the United States as a &#8220;grim and sad moment&#8221; and called on the country to unite against the pandemic. &#8220;I urge all Americans to remember &#8211; to remember those we have lost and those we have left behind,&#8221; Biden said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[2615,1301,1407,1650,2523],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attualita","tag-biden","tag-covid19","tag-deaths","tag-moment","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}