A bed at the newly-built temporary hospital at Manhattan’s Javits Center, where Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed the latest diagnosis numbers on Friday morning (Pictures: Getty)

More than 90,000 people are now confirmed to have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the United States after 7,377 more people in New York tested positive for Covid-19 overnight.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave the update Friday morning, and said the number of people killed in his state had risen to 519 overnight – an increase of 134 from the day before.

The New York figure added to existing diagnoses across the rest of the United States give a total of 91,922 cases, with the US now having 10,000 more Covid-19 cases than China, the next worst-hit country.

Speaking from a temporary 1,000 bed hospital erected at Manhattan’s enormous Javits Center convention venue, Governor Cuomo said a total of 44,635 people across New York State had tested positive for Covid-19.




He said that 6,481 people are receiving hospital treatment. 1583 of those patients are in intensive care – an increase of 290 overnight.

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Governor Cuomo warned New York hospitals would begin to reach capacity in the coming days, and revealed plans for four more 1,000 bed temporary hospitals (Picture: Getty)

A total of 2,045 people previously hospitalized across New York state have now been discharged from hospital after beating coronavirus, with 528 of those people sent home since yesterday.

The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 in New York has risen from 496 on March 17 to 6,481 today, with Cuomo warning New York hospitals would begin running out of beds in the coming days. On Friday, he unveiled plans to create another four 1,000 bed hospitals in New York City’s other four boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx.

Paying tribute to construction workers, and warning New Yorkers of the chaos ahead, Cuomo said: ‘This is a different beast. It’s an insidious beast. it’s not going to be a short deployment. It’s going to be a long day, an ugly day, a sad day.

‘As hard as we work, we’re not going to save everyone. What’s even more cruel is that this enemy does not attack the strongest of us. It attacks the weakest of us, the most vulnerable, the people that every instinct tells us we are supposed to protect.

‘Those are the exact people that this enemy attacks.’

‘This is a moment that is going to change this nation, forges character, forges people – changes people…

‘I say that we go out there today and we kick coronavirus ass.’