WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (Apr 8) that the federal government had 8,675 ventilators in a national stockpile available ...
"But we'll have them for the future and we'll also be able to help other countries who are desperate for ventilators."In the United States, COVID-19 has killed more than 10,000 people while more than 367,000 have fallen ill, according to a Reuters tally.According to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, the number of new COVID-19 hospitalisations appeared to be leveling off in the state.
New York's cumulative death toll of 5,489 accounts for nearly half of about 12,500 coronavirus fatalities reported nationwide to date. But Cuomo said the rising tallies of deaths, while ominous, were a"lagging indicator" of case outcomes occurring days or weeks after the onset of infections.
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