A woman wearing a facemask crosses the street in the rain on March 28, 2020 in New York City.
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New York is the epicentre of the U.S. outbreak, with more than 50,000 — or about half — of the country’s total cases.
Deaths from new coronavirus in the United States surged past 2,000 Saturday, doubling in just three days, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
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The number of deaths late Saturday was 2,010, about a quarter of them in New York City, the country’s hardest hit region, Johns Hopkins reported. That is fewer than the 10,023 in Italy, Spain’s 5,812, China