US coronavirus death toll tops 400,000

It took four months to reach the first 100,000 dead. It took just over a month to go from 300,000 to 400,000

(PA)

The US death toll from coronavirus has passed 400,000 in the final hours in office for President Donald Trump, whose handling of the crisis has been judged by public health experts a singular failure.

The running total of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is nearly equal to the number of Americans killed in the Second World War.