More people have now died from the coronavirus outbreak in New York City than perished in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre.
New York state recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day jump during the coronavirus crisis, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reported the state's highest daily death toll during the coronavirus outbreak."That's 731 people who we lost. Behind every one of those numbers is an individual. There's a family, there's a mother, there's a father, there's a sister, there's a brother.
The coronavirus has again made New York ground zero in a national tragedy and the centre of a crisis that is reshaping Americans' lives, liberties and fears. "9/11 transformed society. ... You had a sense of vulnerability that you never had before, which I feel to this day," Cuomo said during a coronavirus briefing last month. "There was a trauma to 9/11. But as a society, as a country, we have been blessed in that we have not gone through something as disruptive as this."
In London, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the world's first head of government known to have fallen ill with the virus, was in a stable condition and conscious at a hospital, where he was receiving oxygen but was not on a ventilator, said his spokesman James Slack. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was designated to run the country in the meantime.
"We're desperately hoping that Boris can make the speediest possible recovery," said cabinet minister Michael Gove, who is among scores of British officials in self-isolation.
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