NEW YORK (May, 11, 2020): A new report suggests New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic may be thousands of fatalities worse than official tally kept by the city and state.
New York City had recorded nearly 14,800 deaths confirmed by a lab test and another nearly 5,200 probable deaths, according to the city's health department.
The analysis released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that between mid-March and early May, about 24,000 more people died in the city than researchers would ordinarily expect, based on the season.
That’s about 5,300 more deaths that had been previously attributed to the coronavirus during that time period.
Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said several regions of upstate New York that have shown progress in taming the coronavirus outbreak are ready to gradually restart economic activity by the end of the week.
– Courtesy : Associated Press
