Nearly 61,000 people have died in the US due to the coronavirus outbreak which will soon be deadlier than any other epidemic in more than half a century in the virus-ridden country. Deaths from the contagious respiratory illness (COVID-19) reached 60,876 on Wednesday, while at least 1,038,451 people are infected with the novel coronavirus — a third of the global toll, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases. The ...