COVID-19 Deaths Climb In New York

NEW YORK (AP) – The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 1,000 in New York City as an overwhelmed health system embraced the arrival of hundreds of paramedics, EMTs and ambulances. City officials said Tuesday that the lifeline of health care support includes 500 paramedics and EMTs and 250 more ambulances. The city Health Department said that among those who’ve died in the city is the first victim under 18. A somber-sounding Gov. Andrew Cuomo said early Tuesday that more than 300 new deaths had been reported in the state in the previous 24 hours, a number rendered obsolete just hours later by the virus that has infected more than 75,000 statewide.