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Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:37 PM Mar 2020

U.S. reports 3rd-most coronavirus cases in the world

U.S. reports 3rd-most coronavirus cases in the world

Rebecca Falconer, Orion Rummler

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-west-virginia-first-case-ac32ce6d-5523-4310-a219-7d1d1dcb6b44.html8

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Reported coronavirus cases have surpassed 30,000 in the U.S., with nearly 400 deaths by Sunday, per Johns Hopkins data. Only China had Italy have more cases.

The big picture: Governments around the world are trying to curb the huge health and financial impact of COVID-19, which has infected more than 300,000 people and killed more than 14,000 others.

By the numbers: New York has become America's epicenter of COVID-19 with about 50% of the country's total cases, with 2,832 new cases in New York City alone.

So far more than 60,000 have been tested in New York, the most in the country, per Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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