US almost at 200,000 coronavirus diagnoses as NY sees 8,000 new cases and 391 new deaths

Coronavirus diagnoses in the United States have almost hit 200,000 after New York diagnosed almost 8,000 new cases overnight.

The US now has over 199,000 Covid-19 diagnoses, with the state of New York seeing 391 deaths over the last 24 hours – an increase of 59 deaths on Tuesday’s total.

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that the State of New York now has a total of 83, 712 coronavirus diagnoses.

And he warned that New York’s coronavirus ‘apex’ – which will see the most diagnoses and deaths – is now forecast to hit at the end of April, rather than the second or third week of the month, as previously estimates.

Cuomo said: ‘We are looking at the end of April. Another month of this.’

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