Video: Shoppers fill Costco NYC to stock up on food, sanitizers on March 14. (Xinhua/Wei Ying)
The fresh figure reached 3,244 with 62 deaths ...
Local residents wait in lines outside a Costco supermarket in Los Angeles, the United States, March 14, 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to open up 50 billion U.S. dollars in federal aid to help combat the spread of COVID-19 across the country. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/Xinhua)
NEW YORK, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States has topped 3,000 by 2:30 p.m. local time Sunday (1830 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Arrivals walk out of Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the United States, March 13, 2020. The White House announced on March 14 that the United States is extending Europe travel restrictions to Britain and Ireland due to COVID-19, which will be effective on the midnight of March 16 eastern standard time. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
The fresh figure reached 3,244 with 62 deaths, the CSSE said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which does not update figures on the weekend, reported 1,678 cases as of 4 p.m. Thursday (2000 GMT Thursday).
(Article by Xinhua Reporter Chang Yuan) ■
