Coronavirus Deaths Spike Abroad As New York City Becomes U.S. Virus Epicenter
The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 12,000 Saturday as New York City reported thousands of new cases over the past week. Cases in that city now make up about a third of all cases in the U.S.
Updated at 6:12 p.m. ET
The global death toll from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, neared 13,000 Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, and by Saturday evening the global number of confirmed cases topped 300,000.
Among the countries hit hardest recently are Italy, Iran and Spain, where the death toll is above 1,000 in each country, as
