People who believe they have Covid-19 wait in line to be pre-screened for coronavirus outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center on March 20, 2020 in New York. PHOTO | FILE | AFP
The US coronavirus death toll climbed by 2,333 in the past 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Tuesday, more than twice as many as the day before.
The Baltimore-based university said as of 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Wednesday) that the country had suffered a total of 71,022 deaths.
