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The coronavirus death toll in New York City was revised on Tuesday to include 3,700 people presumed to have died after catching coronavirus but who had not been tested, bringing the number of fatalities in the city to more than 10,000.... [+]The 3,700 additional deaths occurred between March 11 and April 13 and include people thought to have had COVID-19 before they died in hospital, at home, or at a care facility, taking the death toll to 10,367.
Health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said: “Behind every death is a friend, a family member, a loved one. We are focused on ensuring that every New Yorker who died because of COVID-19 gets counted,” ReutersNew York City is at the centre of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., and now has more cases per capita than Italy, Europe’s worst-hit country.
The latest changes reflect how a testing shortfall has impacted official figures—before now, the city counted deaths where the person had tested positive for COVID-19. It also shows how rapidly the impact of the virus is moving through the U.S.—it was only on Sunday that New York stateNYC’s revised figures push the U.S. coronavirus death toll to more than 26,000, while there are more than 600,000 cases—the most of any country, by far.
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