New York Registers 478 COVID-19 Deaths on Sunday Down From 507 on Saturday - Governor

16:21 GMT, 20 April 2020

NEW YORK (Sputnik) - The US state of New York reported a decrease in the number of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths on April 19 with 478 lives lost, compared to 507 fatalities registered a day before, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press briefing on Monday.

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"478 New Yorkers died yesterday from this terrible virus," Cuomo said. "That numbers still horrifically high."

A table that Cuomo displayed read that on Saturday, 507 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19.

As of Monday, the US has registered a total of 761, 991 coronavirus cases and more than 40,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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