After more than two years of restrictions to counter the global health crisis, Joe Biden’s words will be heard as a cry of victory. The American president indeed affirmed that the Covid-19 pandemic was “over” in the United States, during an interview broadcast on Sunday.
“The pandemic is over, we still have a problem with the Covid, we are devoting a lot of work to this file … but the pandemic is over,” the leader told CBS.
“If you look around, no one is wearing a mask, and everyone looks pretty good,” he said. “So I think that’s changing.” According to figures from Johns Hopkins University, there were still 2,989 deaths from Covid-19 in the United States last week and 440,044 new cases.