Breaking: U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 10,000: Johns Hopkins University

Source: Xinhua| 2020-04-07 01:39:20|Editor: huaxia

A temporary hospital is under construction in Central Park in New York, the United States, March 30, 2020. (Guang Yu/Handout via Xinhua)

NEW YORK, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States topped 10,000 as of 1:20 p.m. local time Monday (1720 GMT), according to the data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

A total of 10,335 people have died of the disease among 347,003 confirmed cases in the country, the CSSE said.

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