Coronavirus
The US has suffered more confirmed coronavirus deaths than any other country and on Saturday was poised to soon reach 19,000 Covid-19 fatalities, new data indicated.
By Saturday afternoon, Johns Hopkins University’s tally of US Covid-19 fatalities was at 18,860. Italy followed with 18,849. The US was also the first country to report 2,000 deaths in a single day, with 2,108 people dying in the previous 24 hours.
New York, the hardest-hit US state, saw 783 deaths on Friday, raising the total to 8,627, governor Andrew Cuomo said at a briefing in Albany, the state capital.
“That is not an all-time high, and you can see that the numbers [are] somewhat stabilizing – but it is stabilizing at a horrific rate,” Cuomo said.
The US outbreak, now exceeding a half-million confirmed cases, outpaced Spain, the country with the second-most confirmed cases, by approximately 340,000.
Researchers at John Hopkins have tallied a total of 503,594 confirmed US cases. Spain follows with 161,852. Italy ranks third in confirmed cases, at 147,577. There have been 29,223 reported recoveries in the US, the researchers also said.
Worldwide coronavirus deaths now total 104,937. Confirmed cases have reached 1,724,736. Recorded worldwide recoveries total 354,815.
The US coronavirus crisis is widely recognized to have been exacerbated by slow federal responsesand patchwork state-level approaches.
The White House expert Dr Deborah Birx has said there are positive signs that the outbreak is stabilising, but warned: “We have not reached the peak.”
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