The city of NY has exceeded the 20 thousand barrier dead for him Covid-19, according to the municipal count, which includes confirmed and probable deaths by the disease.
A total of 20,056 people had died as of this Monday night according to the latest balance of the local Health Department, with 14,928 deaths confirmed by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and 5 thousand 128 in which this pathology was noted as a probable cause.
The figures are higher than those offered by the state authorities of NY, which only takes into account the deceased who have tested positive for Covid-19, so its latest balance speaks of less than 15 thousand deaths in the Big Apple and 21 thousand 764 in the state as a whole.
Meanwhile, the count of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University raises the death toll to almost 27,000 in this state, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States.
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The Big Apple, the largest city in the country, has about 8.5 million inhabitants, while the state as a whole has almost 20 million.
The actual death toll, however, may be even higher than that offered by New York City, according to a report released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). U.S.
The document identified that between mid-March and the beginning of this month of May there were some 24 thousand deaths more than what is normally registered this season in the city of skyscrapers, so there would be thousands of deaths that can be attributed directly or indirectly to the pandemic.
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The United States, the country hardest hit by the pandemic in the world, surpassed the barrier of 80 thousand deaths due to the coronavirus on Monday, according to the count of Johns Hopkins.
After New York, the most affected states are neighboring New Jersey, with about 9,300 deaths, and Massachusetts, with just over 5,100, according to the latest figures from that university.
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