Figures launched by the federal government additionally present that 1,110 Covid deaths have now been recorded as happening on January 12, 2021 - the very best variety of deaths to happen on a single day for the reason that outbreak started.
England is in its third national lockdown, with schools closed to most pupils and people ordered to stay at home.
Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show that there have now been 108,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.
Broke out in Wuhan City of China in December 2019, the coronavirus has killed 2,081,264 and infected 97,269,544 globally until the filing of this news.
Jeff Zients, the new president's point-man for fighting the pandemic, said Biden would also establish an office of Covid-19 response inside the White House.
The country is battling its largest resurgence of Covid-19 cases in almost a year, although the official figures are startlingly low compared to the rest of the world: just seven cases were reported in Beijing on Wednesday.
Tuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the United Kingdom to 91,470. He said: 'These figures are appalling, and of course we think of the suffering that each one of those deaths represents to their families and to their friends.
NHS England data shows 56,000 Covid deaths were recorded in over-60s by January 14 - but only 4,500 in the under-60s.
However he warned there can be "extra to come back", including: "What we're seeing is the results of the wave of the brand new variants that we noticed simply earlier than Christmas". Biden leads tributes The US is by far the worst-hit nation with more than 400,000 deaths, and incoming Commander-in-Chief Biden focused on healing at a memorial for victims on the eve of his inauguration.
It means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.
It looks as though the rates of infection in the country overall may now be peaking or flattening but they're not flattening very fast.
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The figures, which go against a wealth of other research showing cases have started to fall, are taken in high regard by Government ministers. "There are still a lot of people working in the NHS (National Health Service) who are off work with illnesses and more patients need urgent hospital care", he said.
