NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – According to authorities, New York City has exceeded the mark of one million corona cases since the pandemic began. The health authority of the metropolis on the US east coast published corresponding figures on Saturday. Most of the cases were detected by PCR tests, but the statistics also include “probable” infections that were recorded, for example, by antigen tests or on the basis of disease symptoms.
Since February 2020, 33,645 people in New York City have died of Covid 19 disease. More than 117,000 of the approximately 8.8 million inhabitants of New York had to be treated temporarily in hospital. The rapidly spreading delta variant of the coronavirus, which is now dominant in the US, is blamed for 90 percent of new infections in the city. According to the figures published on Saturday, 67 percent of adults in New York are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19./mub/DP/zb
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