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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the death toll from the coronavirus in the state reached 4,159, up from 3,565 the day before. "That is up, and that is the worst news," Cuomo says during a news conference in Albany. "But the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping for the first time. What is the significance of that? It’s too early to tell." SOUNDBITE
New York state's coronavirus toll rose at a devastating pace to 3,565 deaths Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo says, up from 2,935 the previous day, the largest 24-hour jump recorded there. SOUNDBITE
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces an "extraordinary step" amid the coronavirus outbreak: the dispatch of the US Comfort, a hospital ship that with some 1,000 rooms aboard for COVID-19 patients, to New York City Harbor. SOUNDBITE
Darcia Piana, the vice governor of the southern Brazilian state of Parana, visits the site of the C. Vale agroindustrial company where eight people were killed and 11 injured in a series of silo explosions. IMAGES
The convoy transporting Donald Trump arrives at the New York state attorney general's office, as the former US president is due to answer questions in a civil case that accuses him and three of his children of business fraud. IMAGES