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Refrigerated tractor-trailers as temporary morgues in New York City

serve The United States as The First country in The World , the consumption of More Than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day.

the Figures from the Johns Hopkins University show 2,108 people were killed in the last 24 hours, while it is confirmed now More Than half A Million infections.

The United States could soon Italy surpassed as the country with the majority of coronavirus deaths in The World .

But the experts at the White house Covid-19 Task Force of the outbreak to say is level off in the United States.

Dr. Deborah Birx, said there were good signs of the outbreak has been stabilized, but he warned: "As encouraging as they are, we have not reached the summit. "

President Donald Trump also said that he expected US to see a lower death rate than The Initial forecasts of 100,000 deaths, adding: "We see clear signs that our aggressive strategy, saving countless lives".

In other developments:

What are the latest U.S.?

according to Johns Hopkins , the tracking of the disease in The World . About half of the deaths were recorded in the New York area.

Italy has reported died 18,849 deaths while worldwide, More Than 102,000 people with The Virus .

the researchers had predicted that the U.S. Death Toll would have to decrease its peak on Friday And Then gradually start to about 970 persons per day of 1. May - day, members of The Trump administration floated as a possible start date of the re-opening of the economy.

"I want to open it as soon as possible," said Mr Trump said in a Friday briefing at the White house. "I would say, without question, the biggest decision I had to ever make. "

However, no action was taken until the government knew that "the country [was] going to be healthy," He Said . "We do not want to go back and start doing it again and again. "

A city upended

Nada Tawfik, Bbc News , New York

has changed The coronavirus everything, about life, and now, it is upending the rituals of death.

New Yorkers have been shocked by the dismal scenes: ambulance blaring car constantly down eerily deserted streets, Body Bags are moved with fork-lift trucks in refrigerated Trucks outside the hospitals, and new trenches dug on Hart's Island burials for possible mass.

The remote cemetery, accessible only by boat, is a place historically considered with care, because its mass graves without tombstones, the only unclaimed bodies. The City morgues can only handle so much before temporary burials for Covid-19 victims, once an absolute worst-case scenario, be necessary.

funeral-Directors talk openly about how scared and dejected, the spiking Death Toll has left. To buried even before This Week the record-breaking number of deaths to the wait some families had, a week or longer, and burn their love.

Why could be the breakout start leveling soon?

Dr. Anthony Fauci , of the US infectious disease chief, confirmed to see that the country is "start Leveling off and coming down" of cases and deaths. But despite the "significant progress" back, he added, climate protection measures such as social distance should not be drawn, yet.

A new projection of the it is assumed that the restrictions will remain in force. Last month, Dr. Fauci estimated that at least 100,000 deaths.

Also mentioned at The Briefing , Dr. Birx to ensure that the rate of increase appeared to be a stabilization in heavily affected regions such as New York , New Jersey and The City of Chicago.

she added that the U.S. death rate was "significantly less than many other countries, if you have the right for our population". But she stressed that The Nation was yet to see The Peak of the outbreak.

"We must continue to do what we did yesterday and the week before and the week before, because that is what will take us over the summit and down The Other side. "

On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the latest data showed, The State was successful in "flattening The Curve ", but also noted that it was too early to relax social distancing measures. "Even if it is to remain a loop, although it is difficult, we have to be with him. "

The risk appears to be highest for America's minorities, disproportionately affected by Covid-19.

Dr Jerome Adams , of the U.S. Surgeon General , said the development was "alarming, but not surprising" that the minorities in the US generally had more chronic diseases such as asthma, hypertension and diabetes.

"As a matter of fact, I have used an inhaler in the bag for 40 Years for fear of a fatal asthma attack," said Dr. Adams, who is African-American.

But he gives to drink to stop controversy by urging minorities to smoke and to take drugs to reduce your risk. He has been criticized, in particular, to respect that his use of slang, as he told them, social distance guidelines.

"Do it for your abuela. You do it for your grandfather. You do it for your Big Mama . You do it for your Pop-Pop," Dr. Adams said. He later, all Americans are advised to avoid alcohol, tobacco and drugs.

at the Friday briefing, Mr Trump also said he had seen The Drone pictures of coffins are stacked in a mass grave on New York 's Hart Island . The officials of The Island , used to say, to bury the people with no next-of-kin for over 150 years, now to bury the body at five times the normal rate.

Earlier in The Day , Dr. Fauci told CNN that officials are currently discussing whether immunity to accept certificates for Americans, which is sure to have survived, to prove to the Corona-Virus antibodies in their blood to it.

The certificates May be "some merit under certain circumstances," He Said , adding that anti-body tests would be available in the next week.

Meanwhile in Washington, legislators are considering a "Covid-19 heroes Fund" to direct payments to the workers at The Front of the pandemic.

The Democratic-led proposal calls for a $13 (£10) hour rate, up to the pay that workers receive from their employers. Payment to a ceiling of US $ 25,000 would be. The Money would go in the direction of the nurses, doctors, grocery clerks, transit workers and other workers as deemed necessary.

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Source of news: bbc.com