The latest data, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, shows more than twenty thousand people in the US have now died.
The grim milestone comes shortly after the US became the first nation to record more than two thousand virus deaths in a single day.
The governor of New York ANDREW CUOMO has however said on the state’s death toll appeared to be stabilizing.
Announcing a 24-hour figure of seven hundred and eighty three new deaths, he noted the last several days had seen around the same number.
New York State has become the epicenter of the outbreak in the US, recording more than one hundred and eighty thousand of the country’s nearly five hundred and thirty thousand cases.
