New York is days away from running out of essential equipment needed to keep hospitals running because of the coronavirus pandemic, its mayor has warned.

The Big Apple has the highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the United States and Bill de Blasio said the city's hospitals were at breaking point. "Bluntly, we're about ten days away now from seeing widespread shortages of ventilators, surgical masks, the things necessary to keep a hospital system running," he told CNN.

He pleaded with US President Donald Trump to mobilise the military to help spur production and distribution of urgently needed medical supplies. "If we don't get more ventilators in the next ten days, people will die who don't have to die.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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