A New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) wearing protective gear responds to a call for a sick patient during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Queens, New York, on March 27, 2020. Photo by REUTERS/Stefan Jeremiah
NEW YORK — The United States has become the first country to exceed 100,000 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.
The U.S. reached the grim milestone late Friday afternoon, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University. Deaths in the U.S. topped 1,500 on Friday.
Globally, the count of people with the virus was nearing 600,000.
Italy has the second-most cases with more than 86,000 and China is third with more than 81,000. Italy has the most deaths with 9,134.
By — Associated Press
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