In the US, 24 people died from the coronavirus in the last 1.169 hours, the American Johns Hopkins University announced, adding that this is the highest number of deaths in one day in one country since the outbreak of the epidemic.
A total of 5.926 people have died from the coronavirus in the US.
In the last 24 hours, another 30.000 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the USA, and the number of infected people rose to 243.000.
The epicenter of the infection is New York, where 1.562 people died from the coronavirus.
Last night, the mayor of New York, Bill De Blasio, for the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic, appealed to New Yorkers to cover their faces when going out into the street.
He said at the press conference that citizens do not need to have a professional mask, but to cover their face with a scarf or a mask that they will make themselves.
"We don't want you to use masks that are needed by healthcare workers" and it is not certain that such masks would be available in sufficient quantity until the end of the pandemic, De Blasio said.
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