World news: US smashes daily Covid-19 death record AGAIN with nearly 2,000 fatalities in 24 hours, as outbreaks accelerate beyond New York

The United States has set a new record for its daily mortality count, reporting just shy of 2,000 new deaths in the span of a single day, as fatalities in New York – the country’s top hotspot – and beyond continue to mount.

The data was looking really good the last couple of days, but today we're back up... 1,939 deaths today and 12,722 to date. Data suggests we're on a big upswing again. Predicting 26k deaths in 7 days, now. pic.twitter.com/8KTHerQk4V
— Courtney Perigo (@Courtney_Perigo) April 8, 2020

While stats in recent days appeared to show deaths leveling off, the latest figures gathered by Johns Hopkins University indicate that Tuesday was the deadliest day yet in the US, with some 1,939 new fatalities. New York state has been the greatest contributor to the death toll by far, but the new data shows that deaths are also surging in other states.

Another way to look at this. New York daily deaths have been a major component of U.S. deaths, but, at least today, there was a large increase in deaths in the other states and territories. pic.twitter.com/or3yeGeUTG
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) April 7, 2020