A staff member pushes a patient in a wheelchair at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City.AFP Photo
Washington- Six hundred people have died from the new coronavirus in the United States, while the number of confirmed cases now stands at 49,768, a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University showed Tuesday.
The US has the third-highest number of confirmed cases globally, behind China and Italy.
The death rate based on reported cases is now 1.2 per cent — but the actual number believed to be infected is far higher, which would bring the rate down.
Social distancing and quarantine measures have been instituted across much of the United States, bringing the world’s biggest economy to an abrupt halt.
President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that he wants the US lockdown relaxed by mid-April, warning that keeping the measures in place could “destroy” the country.
But many public health experts have warned that lifting the measures too soon could lead to a surge in cases and hospitals being overwhelmed, amid a dire shortage of ventilators and protective gear for health care workers. (AFP)
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