Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor and the face of America's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has tested positive for COVID-19. The National Institutes of Health on Wednesday said that Fauci, who is fully vaccinated and doubly boosted, has mild symptoms and is working from home.

US chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci tests positive for COVID-19

Despite a jump in the number of coronavirus vaccines administered, the United States is seeing a rise in the number of cases. The seven-day average of new infections spiked to 57,695 on Wednesday, 9.

Despite vaccine doses, coronavirus cases in US are surging again

A year since the vaccination started, the official death toll due to COVID-19 surpassed 800,000 in the US, making it the country worst hit by the pandemic. According to the tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, around 450,000 of those deaths took place in 2021, despite vaccines being available since it was first authorised in December 2020.

US Covid death toll tops 800,000 in global record; most who died were unvaccinated