WASHINGTON: The number of deaths caused by the novel coronavirus rose to 1,031 in the United States on Wednesday (Mar 25), with 68,572 confirmed cases nationwide, a tracker run by the Johns Hopkins University showed.
The tracker had showed 827 just a few hours earlier. The United States has the third highest number of confirmed cases behind China and Italy, and the US death rate is now 1.5 per cent, based on reported cases.