In world first, US registers more than 2,000 virus deaths in a day
A worker packing material to be made into masks for use by frontliners, at a warehouse in Alameda, California, yesterday. The US has led the world in the number of Covid-19 cases since the end of last month. – EPA pic, April 11, 2020.
THE US yesterday became the first country to record more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in one day, with 2,108 fatalities in the last 24 hours, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. The country now has 18,586 deaths and is closing in on the toll of 18,849 dead in Italy, which has seen the most fatalities so far in the Covid-19 pandemic and yesterday extended a nationwide lockdown to May 3.
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