Death toll from coronavirus exceeds 2,000 in the US 25% in New York.









The death toll from the new coronavirus in the United States reached 2,000 this Saturday, doubling in three days, while the total number of infected people has increased from 120,000, according to a report by Johns Hopkins University. At the end of the day, the total number of deaths in the country since the beginning of the pandemic reached 2,010, about a quarter of them in New York City, the region of the country most affected by the virus. The CDC (Center for Disease Control of the United States), however, has not been updated and still records 1,668 deaths.



The number of confirmed cases in the United States reached 121,117 this Saturday, a world record. Mortality in the country, however, remains much lower than in Italy (more than 10,000) and Spain (around 6,000). Becoming the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States, the state of New York, where mandatory quarantine could be decreed, is by far the most aff…