New York Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 20,000
According to the latest update by the Health Department, New York City’s death toll from coronavirus climbed to new heights at the start of the week. As the New York Daily News reports, during the 24 hours ending Sunday at 6 p.m., a total of 125 New Yorkers lost their lives, bringing the death toll to 20,056.
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The latest stats show that New York remains the hardest-hit city in the country; a quarter of the known fatalities in the U.S., which had more than 80,000 deaths and about 1.3 million confirmed cases as of Monday night, according to data tracked by Johns Hopkins University.
As of Tuesday, New York State as a whole, had a total of 27,003 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, according to state statistics.
The growing numbers are one of the big reasons why Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn’t been so quick on reopening the state. However, he recently announced that the hardest-hit state in the union will begin a staged reopening this Friday. During a conference, Cuomo explained that those areas had met seven metrics that will be used to determine when loosening restrictions are appropriate.
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