COVID-19 kills over 5,000 in US, 884 deaths highest in a day: Report

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Washington, Apr 02, 2020: The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 5,000 late Wednesday, according to a running tally from Johns Hopkins University.

At about 0235 GMT Thursday, 5,116 people had died, the tally showed, on the same day the United States set a one-day record of 884 people killed in 24 hours, NDTV reported.

 

The US death toll is lower than those of Italy and Spain but above the 3,316 recorded for China, where the pandemic first emerged in December.

According to Johns Hopkins, the US leads the world in number of cases of new coronavirus, with 215,417.

Coronavirus: Trump warns US headed for ’very, very painful two weeks’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned the US of a ’very painful two weeks’ as the country wrestles with the coronavirus pandemic that the White House warns could kill as many as 240,000 Americans.

President Donald Trump, who earlier had downplayed the pandemic’s impact on the US, said Wednesday that "we’re going to have a couple of weeks, starting pretty much now, but especially a few days from now, that are going to be horrific."

Last Sunday, senior US scientist Anthony Fauci issued a cautious prediction that the novel coronavirus could claim 100,000 to 200,000 lives in the country.

Six-week-old baby dies of Coronavirus in US

A six-week-old infant has died of complications relating to COVID-19, the governor of the US state of Connecticut said Wednesday, in one of the youngest recorded deaths from the virus.

Governor Ned Lamont tweeted that the newborn was "brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived."

"Testing confirmed last night that the newborn was COVID-19 positive," Lamont said.

"This is absolutely heartbreaking. We believe this is one of the youngest lives lost anywhere due to complications relating to COVID-19."

Last week Illinois authorities said they were investigating the death of a child "younger than one year" who had tested positive for coronavirus.