More than 60,000 people in the United States have died to due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
That’s 10,000 more fatalities than were reported last Friday, and 20,000 more than on Monday, April 20.
There were 60,207 deaths in the U.S. as of 10:20 a.m. HST, or about 26% of the world’s virus fatalities. New York continues to have the highest death toll (17,638) of any state.
Worldwide, 225,927 people have died from the virus, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, and more than 3.1 million have tested positive.
There have been 1,030,487 confirmed cases in the U.S.
On March 1, there were 98 confirmed cases in the U.S. On March 15, there were about 4,600 cases.
By April 1, the number rose to more than 243,000 as testing efforts increased nationally. On April 15, there were 636,000 cases.
As of this morning, the number of people who have tested positive in Hawaii County is 70. Fifty-one of those have recovered, and the rest are quarantined at home and are being monitored by the state Department of Health.
Statewide, there have been 609 cases as of Wednesday, and more than 28,000 people have been tested.
More than 950,000 people worldwide have recovered from the virus, including just over 116,000 in the U.S.