85,974 Americans are now dead from Coronavirus

Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment to protect from the new coronavirus remove a body from the
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to refrigerated containers parked outside, Thursday, April 2, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Published By: Kazeem Ugbodaga

15th May, 2020

Medical personnel remove a body from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to refrigerated containers parked outside, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

There is no respite in the United States as 85,974 Americans are now dead from the Coronavirus pandemic still sweeping across the country.

According to tally from Johns Hopkins University, the United States has recorded at least 1,419,998 cases of coronavirus and 85,974 related deaths.

The totals includes cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases.

New York, the epicentre of the pandemic in the US has so far recorded 343,051 cases and 27,641 deaths from the virus, while New Jersey has ramp up 42,704 infections and 9,946 deaths.