Launched TUESDAY April 14, 2020 on www.zReportage.com Story #732: The United States passed the grim milestone of 20,000 coronavirus deaths as huge swathes of the globe celebrated the Easter holiday weekend under lockdown at home. About half the deaths in the US are in the New York metropolitan area, where hospitalizations are nevertheless slowing and other indicators suggest lockdowns and social distancing are 'flattening the curve' of infections and staving off the doomsday scenarios of just a week or two ago. The death toll from the new coronavirus in New York state, the US epicenter of the deadly pandemic, has passed 10,000, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. 671 people had died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities in the state to 10,056. The coronavirus has again made New York ground zero in a national tragedy and the center of a crisis that is reshaping Americans' daily lives. At New York City-area hospitals on the front lines of the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the nation, workers are increasingly concerned about the ravages of the illness in their own ranks, and a lack of testing and protective gear. The outbreak has now claimed the lives of at least 20,389 people in the US, which leads the world in deaths and in the number of declared infections, at least 524,903, according to a tally maintained by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.
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A sign asks to maintain social distance of 6 feet (2 meters), with New York in the background. The city continues to be epicenter of the Coronavirus.
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A nurse protests in front of the New York Manhattan Mount Sinai Hospital holding a photo of Freda Ocran, a nurse who died with Coronavirus. The number of people infected In New York is close to 50,000, as 10,590 patients require hospitalization and the death toll has topped 1,500.
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A procession of the dead emerges from the backdoor of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. Hospital workers push the gurneys carrying the recently deceased to a temporary morgue inside refrigerated container trucks. Their lives were all claimed by COVID-19 or the novel Coronavirus.
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A healthcare professional cries in front of Wyckoff Medical Center Hospital in Brooklyn during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. New York announced that the state recorded its highest single-day increase in virus deaths on Tuesday with 731 deaths reported bringing the total to 5,489 deaths and 138,836 infections.
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Nurses push the dead body of a patient who died of Coronavirus at Mount Sinai Morningside. The New York City death toll tops 1,500 as officials warned that the worst of the toll may yet to come. The new coronavirus has now infected 1 million people across the world.
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Emergency Medical Technicians move a coronavirus victim at New York South Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. Black Americans and Latinos Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection.
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NYC building Makeshift morgue using 8 refrigerated trucks outside Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan to deal with a potential surge of coronavirus victims.
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Navy personal walk past COMFORT medical ship. The USNS Comfort, a Mercy-class hospital ship, docks at Pier 90. The 1000 beds and 12 operating rooms will be used for non-coronavirus patients to alleviate overworked hospitals due to COVID-19.
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At the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic people began to hoard toilet paper and none was to be found throughout the city. Toilet paper is now available in some places with a one package per person rationing.
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A hospital worker crosses the parking lot of the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn with the body of a Covid-19 victim on a nursing bed and passes by a second refrigerated truck. Deaths from the Covid-19 spiked to new highs in New York for a second straight day on Wednesday with an additional 779 deaths reported. Another somber distinction, New York State, with 149,316 confirmed cases and 6268 deaths reported, has had more people test positive for the virus than any single country outside the United States.
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Hasidic men speak with an elderly patient being brought into Mount Sinai Hospital in the Bronx,during the coronavirus pandemic.
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A patient arrives at Lenox Health hospital in New York City's Greenwich Village Thursday, as the Coronavirus epidemic peaks in the city. The state recorded 799 deaths from Wednesday to Thursday. New York broke its record for the largest single-day coronavirus death toll for the third consecutive day but had its lowest daily jump in hospitalizations.
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Medical staff move bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to a refrigerated truck in the Borough of Brooklyn. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has asked the US Defense Department for 100,000 body bags as the toll mounts from the novel coronavirus.
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Nurses putting their names on protective clothing resting outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn.
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April 7, 2020, New York, New York, USA New York metro passengers and staff are visas wearing protective masks during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
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USNS Comfort ship of the United States Navy is seen at pier 90 in Manhattan in New York. The USNS Comfort has the capacity to serve 1000 patients, and arrived in the city to help fight the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
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New York City Mayor BILL DE BLASIO (D) welcomes members of the United States Air Force who have been deployed to Lincoln Hospital. The mayor is seen here in a courtyard of Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx with U.S. Air Force personnel.
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A Jersey City firefighter takes the Coronavirus test. First Responders face high risk but lack supplies and personnel to combat the Coronavirus.
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Military and health care workers line up for lunch at the World Central Kitchen community kitchen, operated by Chefs for America.
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LED panel thanks healthcare professionals in Manhattan. New York City is the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic
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The Empire State building is seen lit up in red in honor of healthcare professionals working to combat the new coronavirus COVID-19, and also to celebrate World Health Day.
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Emergency workers remove a patient with respiratory problems from an apartment building in New York City's Upper West Side Wednesday, as the Coronavirus epidemic reaches its peaks in the city.
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Field hospital set up within Central Park. New York City is the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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An Emergency Medical Technician disinfects the stretcher after taking a Coronavirus victim to the emergency room. The EMTs will prepare the ambulance for the next victim of COVID-19. The FDNY EMT is on the front lines of the Coronavirus battle in the South Bronx.
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Healthcare workers applaud in tribute to all those who are working in the fight against the coronavirus in hospitals and health centers in New York City. More than 14,000 people are reported to have died in the USA due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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New Yorkers left written messages of support on the sidewalk in front of Mount Sinai Hospital on Tuesday, when Gov. Cuomo reported 731 deaths over the past 24 hours, the state's highest single-day coronavirus death toll, the largest percentage of which were in the city.
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A couple wears protective masks in Union Square in Manhattan. New York City is the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Healthcare workers applaud in tribute to all those who are working in the fight against the coronavirus in hospitals and health centers. More than 14,000 people are reported to have died in USA due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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