The United States could face as many as another 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in less than a month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicted on Thursday.

The country recorded a total of 414,107 COVID-19 deaths as of Saturday, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the global death toll, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The total number of confirmed cases in the country has exceeded 24.8 million.

The CDC forecast that the U.S. coronavirus death toll would reach 465,000 to 508,000 by February 13. Currently, the country averages about 194,000 daily cases and 3,000 deaths, according to the CDC data.

The latest forecast comes as the U.S. marks one year since the first COVID-19 case was identified in the country on January 20, 2020, and U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled a comprehensive federal plan to rein in the raging pandemic.

Biden signed 10 wide-ranging executive orders, including improving supply chains for the pandemic, keeping workers safe, ensuring an equitable response, promoting safe travel, and expanding treatment for COVID-19.

He warned on Friday that the number of coronavirus deaths in the country was expected to surpass 600,000 eventually and urged Congress to move fast on his $1.9-trillion plan to battle COVID-19 and provide economic relief to struggling Americans.

(With input from Xinhua)