New York (AP) – In the corona pandemic in the metropolis of New York, significantly more people could have died than assumed.
The city on the US east coast added 3778 “probable” Covid-19 deaths to its statistics on fatalities on Tuesday (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 the number of deaths of New York citizens in the apartments days ago. At first, however, it remained 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 corona deaths.
New York City is the epicenter of the corona crisis in the USA. Even if the curve of the infected had stabilized in the past few days, hundreds of people still die in the hospitals every day.
New York Health Authority Statistics
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