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Death toll globally hits 2,45,254 in COVID-19 with 35,07,776 cases in 210 countries and territories while recovered 11,30,122, according to worldometer.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States 67,494 while total cases 11,62,164, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
A total of 1,106,373 cases have been reported in the country, according to the CSSE.
The state of New York suffered the most, with 308,314 cases and 24,039 deaths. Other hardest-hit states included New Jersey with 7,538 deaths, Michigan with 3,866 deaths, and Massachusetts with 3,716 deaths, the data showed.
The United States recorded nearly 13,500 more deaths are now attributed to the novel coronavirus in March and the first two weeks of April. In total, the U.S. recorded an estimated 37,100 excess deaths during that time, according to an analysis of federal data conducted for The Washington Post by a research team led by the Yale School of Public Health.
President Trump moved to replace the top watchdog at the Department of Health and Human Services after her office released a report on the shortages in testing and personal protective gear at hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump moved to replace the top watchdog at the Department of Health and Human Services after her office
released a report on the shortages in testing and personal protective gear at hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.
The United States government was slow to understand how fast coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which accelerated outbreaks across the country, said Dr Anne Schuchat, the number-two official at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The US government was slow to understand how fast coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which accelerated outbreaks across the country, said Dr Anne Schuchat, the number-two official at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The World Health Organization has reiterated that the coronavirus is believed to be “natural in origin”, responding to a claim by US President Donald Trump that he had seen evidence that indicated the virus emerged from a virology institute in Wuhan, China.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy jumped by 474 on Saturday, against 269 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, posting the largest daily toll of fatalities since April 21.
The steep increase in deaths followed a long, gradual declining trend and was due largely to Lombardy, the country’s worst affected region, where there were 329 deaths in the last 24 hours compared with just 88 the day before.
The daily tally of new infections was broadly stable for a third day running at 1,900 against 1,965 on Friday.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 28,710, the agency said, the second highest in the world after that of the United States.
The number of confirmed cases amounts to 209,328, the third highest global tally behind those of the United States and Spain.
People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 100,704 from 100,943 on Friday.
There were 1,539 people in intensive care on Saturday, slightly down from 1,578 on Friday and maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 79,914 were declared recovered against 78,249 a day earlier.
The agency said 1.430 million people had been tested for the virus against 1.399 million the day before, out of a population of around 60 million.
Spain’s coronavirus death toll hit 25,100 on Saturday after 276 people died overnight, the health ministry said.
Total cases rose to 216,582 from 215,216 on Friday.
Spain has had one of the worst outbreaks in the world, but is past its peak and gradually easing lockdown restrictions.
