The number of people who have died of the coronavirus in the US has now topped 80,000, while the number of cases in the country hits 1.3 million.
On Sunday, the death toll reached 80,308, and it has been revealed nursing home residents and workers now account for a third of these fatalities.
A New York Times database shows that at least 25,600 residents and workers at US nursing homes or long-term care facilities for the elderly have died from coronavirus as of Saturday.
More than 143,000 people were infected with coronavirus at about 7,500 facilities, according to statistics gathered by the newspaper.
Barack Obama has reportedly said the “rule of law is at risk” in the US, after the justice department 
The coronavirus response being spearheaded by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has relied in part on volunteers from consulting and private equity firms with little expertise in the tasks to which they were assigned, exacerbating chronic problems in obtaining supplies for hospitals and other needs, according to numerous government officials and a volunteer involved in the effort.
