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The night sky is illuminated by blue light in New York. The US has officially logged 1,745,606 overall cases of the virus. Image Credit: Bloomberg

Washington: The United States recorded 1,225 coronavirus deaths on Friday, bringing its total to 102,798 since the global pandemic began, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

The country has officially logged 1,745,606 overall cases of the virus, far more than any other nation, the tracker kept by the Baltimore-based university showed at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Saturday).