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| Grim record: US overtakes Italy in Covid-19 death toll – Reuters tally | Grim record: US overtakes Italy in Covid-19 death toll – Reuters tally |
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| The US has become the country with most coronavirus fatalities in the world after the American death toll exceeded 19,600 people and surpassed Italy's numbers, according to calculations by Reuters. | The US has become the country with most coronavirus fatalities in the world after the American death toll exceeded 19,600 people and surpassed Italy's numbers, according to calculations by Reuters. |
| Italy, which remained atop the grim rankings for weeks, has so far registered 19,468 deaths, with third-placed Spain reporting 16,353 people killed by the virus. | Italy, which remained atop the grim rankings for weeks, has so far registered 19,468 deaths, with third-placed Spain reporting 16,353 people killed by the virus. |
| The US has taken the lead after recording around 2,000 deaths from Covid-19 on each of the last four days. | The US has taken the lead after recording around 2,000 deaths from Covid-19 on each of the last four days. |
| The death toll in New York state has already reached 8,627, with the Big Apple being the hardest-hit city. | The death toll in New York state has already reached 8,627, with the Big Apple being the hardest-hit city. |
| However, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was able to find some positive trends in the development of the epidemic, saying the number of hospitalizations and people being placed in intensive care is continuing to decline. | However, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was able to find some positive trends in the development of the epidemic, saying the number of hospitalizations and people being placed in intensive care is continuing to decline. |
| However, the mortality rates – the number of deaths per 100 Covid-19 cases and per 100,000 citizens – were lower in America than in Italy, Spain and some other countries. With a population of over 328 million, the US contains five times more people than Italy and nearly seven times more than Spain. | |
| Friday’s figures from John Hopkins University indicated that the US was ranked ninth in the world in terms of case-fatality ratio (3.7 percent), and seventh when it came to the number of deaths per 100,000 people (5.68 fatalities). | |
| Italy had the worst case-fatality ratio with 12.8 percent, while Spain suffered the most deaths per 100,000 people, with 34.42. | |
| Some 200,000 Americans may die if stay-at-home orders are lifted in the country after 30 days, the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) warned on Friday. But the model, created by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, projected that even if the restrictions remain in place there will still have been around 61,500 deaths in the US due to Covid-19 by August. | |
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