New York has 5% of Covid-19 cases worldwide as city becomes battlefront

State now has 15,000 cases – around half of US total – with residents of New York City facing further lockdown from Sunday evening

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Confirmed coronavirus cases have risen sharply in New York as both the state governor, Andrew Cuomo, and Mayor Bill de Blasio, called for urgent and better assistance from the federal government. The city has over 15,000 confirmed cases as of Sunday afternoon, up from 4,812 since Saturday.

The growth is due, in part, to the rapid expansion of testing but also due to the accelerated growth of the virus throughout the city.

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