US Overtakes Italy As Country With Highest COVID-19 Deaths
The US has suffered more confirmed coronavirus deaths than any other country, and on Saturday was poised to soon reach 20,000 COVID-19 fatalities, new data indicated.
By Saturday evening, Johns Hopkins University’s record of US COVID-19 victims was at 19,877. Italy emerged with 19,468. The US was also the first nation to announce 2,000 deaths in a single day, with 2,108 people dying in the last 24 hours.
New York, the hardest-hit US state, saw 783 deaths on Friday, bringing up 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 steadying at an awful rate,” Cuomo said.
Also on Saturday, the New York Times published a devastating report chronicling Donald Trump’s repeated blunders over several months to take the COVID-19 disaster seriously, and how the president’s uncertainty of the so-called Deep State “colored” his response even as the death toll started to rise.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins had recorded 514,292 confirmed US cases. Spain followed with 161,852 and Italy ranked third in confirmed cases, at 152,271. There have been 29,507 reported recoveries in the US, the researchers also said.
Worldwide COVID-19 deaths now total 108,167. Confirmed cases have reached 1,765,030. Recorded global recoveries total 396,693.
