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New York State Governor Andrew Como announced today that the number of deaths due to the new Corona virus exceeds ten thousand in the state alone.
"The number of deaths due to the virus has reached 10056, while the number of people infected in the state is increasing daily, terrifyingly," Associated Press quoted Como as telling a news conference.
The New York City Department of Health, in turn, warned that it ran the risk of running out of tests and examinations for Covid 19, calling on medical suppliers to continue testing for people with severe symptoms of the disease.
The United States ranks first in the world in terms of the number of deaths and injuries of the Corona epidemic.
In Italy, the number of deaths due to the virus exceeded the threshold of twenty thousand, where civil defense figures showed 566 new deaths recorded during the past 24 hours, raising the total to 20,465, while the number of infections from yesterday increased by 3153 to 159516, with a decrease in the number of patients in intensive care recorded For the tenth day in a row.
In Iraq, the Ministry of Health and Environment announced the registration of 26 new cases of the emerging coronavirus, bringing the total to 1378 in addition to recording two deaths, bringing the deaths to 78 cases.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization announced that halting the spread of the Covid 19 epidemic completely "requires a vaccine," noting that the emerging corona virus is "ten times more deadly" than the virus that causes the H1N1 flu that appeared at the end of March 2009 in Mexico.
"The data gathered in several countries give us a clearer picture of this virus, its behavior and the way to stop it," WHO Director Tidros Adhanom Gebresos said during a video conference from Geneva, noting that it is spreading rapidly and is deadly, calling for not to rush to lift quarantine measures in the world.