In the coronavirus pandemic in the metropolis of New York, significantly more people could have died than expected. The city on the US east coast added 3,778 “probable” Covid-19 deaths to its statistics on fatalities today (local time) – bringing the total death toll in New York City to more than 10,000.
The additional numbers include, among other things, sick people who died in the emergency room, at home or in a care facility, but did not officially test positive for the virus.
According to media reports, local authorities attribute the assumption that the dead suffered from Covid-19 to their symptoms. Mayor Bill de Blasio had reported a significant increase in deaths of New York citizens in the apartments days ago. At first, however, it was unclear how the new, “probable” cases would be taken into account in international statistics. The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore initially still counted significantly fewer than 10,000 for the city of New York with over 7,900 deaths.
New York is the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the United States. Even if the number of infected people has stabilized over the past few days, hundreds of people are still dying in hospitals every day.
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