CORONAVIRUS LATEST: • Mounting death toll from novel coronavirus in the U.S. surpasses 6,000. • Pandemic of novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 53,000 people. • There are now more than a million diagnosed cases of COVID-19.
3 a.m.: US death toll tops 6,000
The mounting death toll from the novel coronavirus in the United States surpassed 6,000 early Friday morning, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University. A vast majority of those deaths have occurred in New York state, the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak. The virus has claimed the lives of more than 1,500 people in New York City alone.
Paramedics transport a patient wearing a face mask to the emergency room entrance of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on April 2, 2020. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on April 2 urged all of the city's residents to cover their faces when outside and near others to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Paramedics transport a patient wearing a face mask to the emergency room entrance of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on April 2, 2020. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on April 2 urged all of the city's residents to cover their faces when outside and near others to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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