May 21 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday said he's ordering flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor some 94,000 Americans killed by COVID-19.
The lowering of flags will begin Friday.
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The three-day period will begin Friday, after which the flags will remain lowered Monday to honor the military dead on Memorial Day. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
"I will be lowering the flags on all Federal Buildings and National Monuments to half-staff over the next three days in memory of the Americans we have lost to the CoronaVirus," Trump tweeted.
"On Monday, the flags will be at half-staff in honor of the men and women in our Military who have made the Ultimate Sacrifice for our Nation."
As of Thursday evening, there were at least 94,600 U.S. deaths confirmed linked to the novel coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University. The school's global tracker indicates there have been 1.58 million confirmed cases in the United States and 298,000 recoveries.
Globally, the virus has killed 332,400 people, crossing the 5 million cases mark Thursday. There have been nearly 2 million recoveries across the globe.
A pedestrian walks past a bar established in 1933 after Los Angeles County officials closed it for the second time following a spike in COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles on August 10. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
