Headline Roundup • April 12th, 2020
National Disasters Declared in all 50 States as US Becomes Epicenter of Coronavirus Outbreak
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CNBC
The entire country is now under a major disaster declaration for the coronavirus pandemic after the U.S. death toll reached the highest in the world on Saturday.
President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for Wyoming on Saturday, which comes 22 days after the first disaster declaration in New York, the epicenter of the virus.
Fox News Digital
The United States has reached a grim milestone in the fight against coronavirus, passing Italy to become the country with the most deaths in the world.
A tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Saturday that 18,860 people have now died in the U.S. since the start of the outbreak. On Saturday, 2,108 people died in the U.S. in the past 24 hours – the first country in the world to record more than 2,000 deaths in a single day.
CNN Digital
(CNN)The United States is reporting more coronavirus deaths than any country in the world, with the death toll Saturday climbing to at least 19,882, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.
The US death toll is narrowly above that of Italy, which is reporting 19,468 deaths, per Johns Hopkins.
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