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City of Hialeah employees loading up food and vegetables to hundreds of cars lined up for hours early during a drive-thru food distribution at the Goodlet Park in Hialeah, Florida, as the coronavirus pandemic continues on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Image Credit: AP

Washington: More than 150,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the United States, according to a tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University.

The world’s worst-hit country announced its first coronavirus-related death at the end of February, and has now recorded more than 4.38 million total cases, the Baltimore-based university reported Wednesday.