As US reports 869 deaths, the highest daily so far, here's what else is happening: - Trump considers cancelling domestic flights - Israeli health minister tests positive - COP26 climate summit postponed Stay updated here:
A doctor rests outside the Brooklyn Hospital in New York, US as a patient is wheeled in on April 2, 2020. The coronavirus has killed 884 people over the past 24 hours in the US, a new one-day record for the country with by far the highest number of reported cases anywhere in the world, Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday evening.The number of reported cases rose by 25,200 over the past 24 hours to 215,020 said the university's coronavirus tracker.
In a statement, the Health Ministry said the 71-year-old minister and his wife are feeling well, receiving medical care and will remain in isolation. Litzman, the most senior Israeli official to be diagnosed with the virus, will continue to carry out his duties from his home. "We're certainly looking at it, but once you do that you really are clamping down an industry that is desperately needed," Trump told a White House news briefing.New York authorities rushed to bring in an army of medical volunteers Wednesday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in 72 hours to more than 1,900 and the wail of ambulances in the otherwise eerily quiet streets of the city became the heartbreaking soundtrack of the crisis.
"It's like a battlefield behind your home," said 33-year-old Emma Sorza, who could hear the sirens from severely swamped Elmhurst Hospital in Queens."How does it end? And people want answers," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said. UN's COP26 climate summit postponed over coronavirus
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