BREAKING: US hits 600,000 coronavirus cases as deaths top 25,000
Caption: Zuma via PA Images April 6, 2020, New York Brooklyn Borough, USA: Funeral home collecting from the Hospital the body of the coronavirus victim Brooklyn Hospital Center Photographer: Marcus Santos Provider: Zuma Press/PA Images Source: Zuma Press, with over 25,000 people known to have died with Covid-19. That grim figure of 603,694 diagnoses was reached on Tuesday afternoon as states across the US began updating their daily figures.
Neighboring New Jersey is the second worst-affected state, with 68,824 coronavirus cases, up 4,240 in 24 hours. A total of 2,805 people died in the Garden State on Monday – 362 more than in the previous 24 hours. Massachusetts currently sits in third place, with 26,867 coronavirus cases and 844 deaths, with Michigan and Pennsylvania also recording over 25,000 cases each. The United States case numbers have almost tripled since April, when the Centers for Disease Control reported 213,144 positive coronavirus test results.America now has triple the number of coronavirus patients as the next worst-affected country, with the state of New York alone having more diagnoses than any other country on Earth.
China, where Covid-19 originated late last year, claims to have seen around 84,000 coronavirus diagnoses and just over 3,300 Covid-19 deaths. But US intelligence officials believe the country’s communist government lied about the statistics. They think the number of diagnoses in China, which has a population of 1.4billion, was many times the official number, and say that more than 40,000 people were likely killed by Covid-19.
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