The number of daily deaths linked to Covid-19 in New York - the hardest hit state in the US - over the past 24 hours has fallen to 84, the lowest one-day total since 24 March. "The news is good news," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in his daily televised briefing.
Hospitalisations, intubations and new infections were all in decline, he added. "In my head, I was always looking to get under 100," Mr Cuomo said, speaking from the governor's mansion in Albany. "It doesn't do good for any of those 84 families that are feeling the pain," he added, "but for me it's just a sign we are making real progress." At the pandemic's peak in New York in early April, the authorities were reporting more than 1,000 deaths a day.