New York state now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than any country in the world

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• New York state has over 160,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which is more than any other country across the globe. 
• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said more than 7,000 people in his state have been killed by COVID-19.
• "9/11 was supposed to be the darkest day in New York for a generation," Cuomo said. "And then, in many ways, we lose so many more New Yorkers to this silent killer."
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New York state alone now has more reported coronavirus cases than any other country in the world, according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

The state is the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with over 160,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. 

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