the United States has become the first
country in the world to record more than
2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day
according to numbers compiled by Johns
Hopkins University 2108 people died in
the last 24 hour period the US has the
highest number of cases in the world now
it's just past half a million it is also
recorded the second-highest number of
deaths over eighteen thousand seven
hundred that's just behind Italy New
York State alone now has more confirmed
cases than any single country in the
world well our North America
correspondent David Willis has more on
what's been a very difficult 24 hours
for the United States the United States
has seen the deadliest day of
coronavirus attacks so deaths if you
like that any country has seen so far
more than 2,000 people died of the virus
today and that brings the total of
deaths here to of nearly 19,000 half a
million Americans have been infected by
the corona virus and the United States
is on track to surpass Italy's total of
the most number of deaths worldwide now
more than half of those deaths occurred
in New York State but there is a glimmer
of hope there because the governor
revealed today that the curve appears to
be flattening as they say the number of
hospitalizations there has stabilised
and that's a statistic that Donald Trump
has seized on in his bid to get this
country back in business as quickly as
possible he announced today that he's
assembled a task force to advise him on
that and the Trump administration is not
downplaying suggestions that this
country could be back in action to some
extent anyway by the 1st of May David
Willis