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The United States on Tuesday surpassed 400,000 deaths from COVID-19 — amid the slow-moving national vaccine rollout.

That figure amounts to nearly 20 percent of the world’s total death count from the virus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

COVID-19 has so far claimed the lives of more than 2,032,500 people globally since the outbreak first emerged in China in late 2019.

The US has the 10th-highest number of total COVID-19 deaths per capita — or a rate of about 1,205 fatalities per 1 million people, according to Statista.

Recently, COVID-19 deaths in the US have been surging. Earlier this month, the country recorded a single-day high of nearly 3,900 fatalities.

The coronavirus has infected over 23.9 million people in the US, data from Johns Hopkins shows — as new strains of the virus emerge in the country.

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Funeral workers prepare to load the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 into a hearse at East County Mortuary on January 15, 2020 in El Cajon, California.
Funeral workers prepare to load the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 into a hearse at East County Mortuary on January 15, 2020 in El Cajon, California.Mario Tama/Getty Images
A nurse wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) closes a door to a patients room in a Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
A nurse wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) closes a door to a patients room in a Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
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An embalmed body, right, rests in a body bag on a gurney at the Boyd Funeral Home in Los Angeles, California.
An embalmed body, right, rests in a body bag on a gurney at the Boyd Funeral Home in Los Angeles, California.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
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Meanwhile, more than 12.2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the nation since the vaccination effort got underway in mid-December, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

However, the pace of the vaccine rollout has been slower than expected.

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