A hospital ship has arrived in New York as America's coronavirus epicentre prepares for the peak of the pandemic, with emergency restrictions extended amid grim warnings about the death toll.
The US now has the highest number of confirmed cases in the world - more than 143 500, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The Big Apple is scheduled to open a temporary emergency hospital in the Javits convention center with 2 900 beds on Monday. Flights run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the body tasked with responding to disasters, have also begun arriving at New York's JFK Airport.The flights, part of"Project Airbridge," are delivering millions of masks, gowns and thermometers.De Blasio said late Sunday the city has enough medical equipment to last a week but needed"several hundred more ventilators very quickly.
Fauci, who leads research into infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said Sunday that between 100 000 and 200 000 Americans could die from"millions of cases."
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