US fatalities cross 100,000

WASHINGTON: The number of deaths in the US from Covid-19 reached a new milestone on Tuesday as coronavirus tracker Worldometer reported that fatalities in the country have topped 100,000. The total number of infections in the US has crossed 1.7 million.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has threatened to shift the nomination convention in North Carolina, where he is supposed to be officially crowned the Republican presidential nominee, citing Covid19-related restrictions in the Democrat-ruled state.

Both Republican and Democratic party conventions have been pushed back by a month, given the continued restrictions. The Republicans meet in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Democrats in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In a string of tweets, Trump said North Carolina’s Democratic governor Roy Cooper is in a “shutdown mood & unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed full attendance (at the convention venue).

“If not, we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site.”

On Monday, the White House brought forward by two days to May 26 the restrictions on travel to the United States from Brazil.