TASS: Coronavirus death toll in US grows by 1,973 in past day — Johns Hopkins University

The record number of coronavirus-associated deaths has been recorded in the United States on April 8 with 1,973 new fatalities in the past day, Johns Hopkins University said on Wednesday.

A total of 430,376 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the United States so far. The death toll reached 14,739, and 23,707 people recovered, TASS reports.

The previous record of over 1,700 fatalities in one day was registered on Tuesday, April 7. On April 4, around 1,400 fatalities were reported in one day.

In late December 2019, Chinese officials notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus — named COVID-19 by the WHO — have been reported in every corner of the globe, including Russia.