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Including its 2 biggest cities. And a month on from the declaration of a pandemic we go back to the one of life markets of asia to blamed for causing the chaos. So the United States has become the country with the highest death toll from corona virus according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker more fatalities were confirmed in the past day taking the u. S. Past italy which is on 19 1468. 00 deaths you can see that top right and heres the United States where the total is now 19701. 00 as you can see a confirmed cases in the worlds biggest economy have been skyrocketing in the month since a pandemic was declared and lets speak to mike hanna who joins us now from washington d. C. So mike now the United States has small fatalities and anywhere else. Weve lost our connection there with my camera well try to get it back a little bit later in the program now critics of President Donald Trump say his slow response is largely to blame for the high numbers in the u. S. Lets hear now from o
Which has set up its own testing for covert 19. And mobile phone alerts and electronic responds how technology is helping stop the spread of the virus but what does that mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the country with the highest coronavirus death toll thats according to latest figures from John Hopkins University this one month after the World Health Organization 1st declared a pandemic well back then there were over 4000 confirmed deaths and in 30 or days or so that number has surged 2100000 the epicenter of the virus has shifted as well moving from china and asia to europe and north america right here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 900 hospital deaths in the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 in spain however there is cautious optimism theyve just seen the lowest number of daily deaths in more than a fortnights while in the u. S. The governor of new york says the number of people are being admitted to hospital continues to decline
Response how technology is helping stop the spread of the fire is what does it mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the 1st country to talk 20000. 00 coronavirus deaths thats according to latest figures from John Hopkins University its one month since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic in that time the death toll has gone from 4000 to nearly 810000 here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 100 hospital deaths on the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 the u. K. Peak could be weeks away in spain however there is cautious optimism theyve just seen the lowest number of daily deaths in more than a fortnights while in the u. S. The governor of new york says the number of people being. Its a hospital continues to decline but that good news is offset by the total u. S. Figure the number of dead there has now overtaken that of italy u. S. President donald trump has been heavily criticized for his handling of the crisis our White House Corr
An online to let you know if youve been in contact with someone whos infected. The u. S. Now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world 20000 people thats tally past italy on friday across the u. S. At least half a 1000000 people are infected more than half of the u. S. Deaths are in 3 States New York new jersey and michigan the epicenter remains new york the surge of deaths there has overwhelmed Funeral Homes and the city is using a mass burial site but the state governor says for the 1st time theres been a drop in intensive care admissions new york city has decided to shut Public Schools for the rest of the academic year. You can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing at and horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain john hendren is joining us now from chicago under cuomo there saying that these are incredible numbers what does this mean for the u. S. Well rob every day we seem to hit