Coronavirus deaths mounted with alarming speed in Spain, Italy and New York, the most lethal hot spot in the United States, while the outbreak has thrown 10 million Americans out of work in just two weeks and by Friday had sickened more than a million people.
The public health crisis deepened in New York City, where one funeral home in a hard-hit neighbourhood had 185 bodies stacked up — more than triple normal capacity.
The city has seen at least 1,500 virus deaths. “It’s surreal,” owner Pat Marmo said, adding that he’s been begging families to insist hospitals hold their dead loved ones as long as possible. “We need help.” Worldwide the number of reported infections hit another gloomy milestone — 1 million, with more than 53,000 deaths,