:Afaq News
The United States has now overtaken Italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world.
The latest data, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, shows more than 20,000 people in the US have now died.
The grim milestone comes shortly after the US became the first nation to record more than 2,000 virus deaths in a single day.
The governor of New York Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday the state’s death toll appeared to be stabilising.
Announcing a 24-hour figure of 783 new deaths, he noted the last several days had seen around the same number.
“That is not an all-time high, and you can see that the number is somewhat stabilising but it is stabilising at a horrific rate,” Mr Cuomo said. “These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain.”
New York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US, recording more than 180,000 of the country’s nearly 530,000 cases.
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As of Saturday, every single US state has declared a disaster in response to the outbreak.
In other developments on Saturday:
- A further 917 deaths were recorded in the UK, bringing the national total to 9,875
- The Queen released an Easter message in which she says “coronavirus will not overcome us”
- The Spanish health ministry reported 510 further deaths – the lowest number recorded there for almost three weeks
- Deaths in France and Italy increased but numbers of patients in intensive care dropped again
- There are reports that the Indian prime minister has agreed to extend lockdown measures
More than 100,000 have now died with the virus around the world since the pandemic broke out in China in December.
What is the latest across the US?
As of early Sunday, Italy had reported 19,468 coronavirus deaths while the US had 20,608, according to the Johns Hopkins tally.
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