The toll of the coronavirus epidemic exceeded Friday the mark of 17,000 deaths in the United States, which becomes the second country most mourning by the virus after Italy and before Spain, according to calculations made by Reuters.
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American authorities had warned in recent days that a significant number of deaths related to this virus, which appeared in December in China, should be expected before spreading to the rest of the world, despite the signs of slowdown observed in the New York State, epicenter of the epidemic.
The number of infected people now exceeds 472,000 cases in the United States where the authorities have urged the population to continue to comply with the confinement rules as the Easter weekend approaches. Globally, the coronavirus epidemic has infected more than 1.5 million people and caused almost 100,000 deaths.