The death toll of the COVID 19 virus pandemic has increased in the United States even as there are signals that the number of confirmed cases begins to plateau. In New York, the ground zero for the COVID 19 virus outbreak in the United States, 779 people lost their lives in the past twenty-four hours, a new high record of deaths in the state.
The state of New York alone has confirmed more cases of the COVID 19 virus than every country in the world. Yesterday, 8th of April, the United States recorded a COVID 19 death toll of almost 2000 nationwide.
New York with the highest number of deaths with 779, New Jersey with the second-highest number of cases at 272, Michigan came in third place at 114, California with 64 deaths, Louisiana with 70, Massachusetts with 77, Pennsylvania with 64, Florida with 27, Illinois with 82, Georgia state with 22 deaths, Texas with 28 deaths, Washington with 28 deaths, Connecticut with 58 deaths, Indiana with 30, Colorado with 14, Maryland with 2w, Ohio with 26, Tennessee with 7, Virginia with 12, North Carolina with 9, Missouri with 15, Wisconsin with 11, Arizona with 7, South Carolina with 12 deaths, Alabama with 3, Nevada with 13, Mississippi with 8, Oklahoma with 12, Rhode Island with 5, Columbia with 3, Kentucky with 8, Oregon with 5, Iowa with 1, Delaware with 3, Kansas with 7, New Mexico with 3, New Hampshire with 5, Maine with 2, Nebraska with 2 Alaska with 1.
Bringing the total number of deaths from the virus within the country to 1940.
Worldwide, the total number of confirmed cases of the COVID 19 virus is about 1,536,091 and a death toll of 89,877.
The United States has confirmed 435,167 cases of the COVID 19 virus, the highest in the world with a total death toll of 14,797.
Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, said that the new number of confirmed cases of the COVID 19 virus is beginning to plateau sand statistics has shown that there is a flattening in the curve and he encourages the citizens to keep staying at home and it was the reason the rate at which the virus spread was decreasing.
