US reports 117 new deaths in one single day due to coronavirus.
The United States has reported 117 new deaths due to coronavirus, 9,339 fresh cases, in one single day while the total death toll in the country so far has reached 419 with over 33,546 COVID-19 confirmed cases. Meanwhile, Italy also reported 651 new deaths, 5,560 new cases taking country's total confirmed COVID-19 toll to 59,138. The global confirmed cases toll currently stands at 337,469 and 14,647 fatalities worldwide. Meanwhile, India COVID-19 confirmed cases on Sunday soar to 395 with 7 over fatalities in the country. As the world continues to fight the noval disease by imposing complete or partial lockdown, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that locking down cities and asking people to stay indoors is not enough to contain the epidemic, therefore, countries have to take more proactive steps to deal with this crisis.
Coronavirus worldwide death toll
Coronavirus worldwide death toll
Coronavirus worldwide death toll
In US, New York tops the list with more than 15,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, with 5,418 new cases added in the 24 hours alone. As many as 114 people in New York have died of which 58 were reported in a day. Painting a grim picture, Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York is headed towards a major shortage of essential medical supply in next 10 days.
"We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages. If we don't get more ventilators people will die," he said. In White House, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters that so far, more than 2,50,000 Americans have been tested for coronavirus.
Trump said that he was rushing all necessary supplies to New York. He has issued Major Disaster Declarations for New York, California and Washington.
"We have large quantities of medical equipment and supplies on the way to those states... Respirators, surgical masks and gowns, face shields, coveralls and gloves in large quantities are already being delivered to Washington and New York," he said.
Trump also said that he has directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to supply four large federal medical stations with 1,000 beds for New York, eight large federal medical stations with 2,000 beds for California and three large federal medical stations and four small federal medical stations with 1,000 beds for the State of Washington. The US president also approved deployment of National Guards in New York.
(With inputs from PTI)
