The American assessment of the coronavirus pandemic became, on Saturday, April 11, the heaviest in the world with more than 20,000 dead, according to a new count of Reuters.

Behind the United States come Italy and Spain, respectively with 19,468 and 16,353 deaths. In Italy, hospitalizations have been falling for ten days and the contagion is clearly slowing down.

500,000 people affected

The United States is also the most affected by the infections with more than 500,000 people affected, and by Friday the country had already become the first in the world to exceed the 2,000 deaths from the coronavirus in just one day, with 2,108 additional deaths recorded in 24 hours.

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On Saturday, faced with the accelerating pandemic, the mayor of New York announced that public schools would remain closed until the end of the school year.

Coronavirus killed 783 people in New York State, the epicenter of the pandemic, on Friday, bringing the local death toll to 8,627, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. However, the number of ICU admissions continues to drop, he said.

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