May 09, 2020 06:22 am | Updated 06:36 am IST - Washington
People walk at a barricaded street in East End Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City.
The United States recorded 1,635 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 77,178, according to the latest real-time tally Friday reported by Johns Hopkins University.
The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — has now confirmed a total of 12,83,829 cases, the Baltimore-based school reported.
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