Via The New York Times: Coronavirus in N.Y.: Live Updates. Excerpt:
As of Monday, 1,000 people had died in New York. Soon, that number will be 3,000.
The coronavirus is taking lives at a devastating pace in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Friday, with deaths nearly doubling in just three days, from 1,550 on Tuesday to 2,935 on Friday.
Governor Cuomo said at his daily briefing on Friday that 562 people in New York had died over the previous 24 hours — more deaths than the state had seen in the first 27 days of March.
Officials in New York City reported 305 new deaths due to the virus on Friday evening, which brought the city’s death toll to 1,867 in the biggest single-day jump so far.
“It’s hard to go through this all day, and then it’s hard to stay up all night, watching those numbers come in and the number of deaths tick up,” the governor said at his daily briefing in Albany on Friday.
