More than 2,000 U.S. citizens have died from the coronavirus as of Saturday, the death toll doubling in Two days , the Washington Post reported. The time between the first confirmed death and the 1,000th was about a month.
Johns Hopkins University reported that confirmed deaths rose to more than 30,000 around the world. The U.S. ranked sixth in deaths, after Italy, Spain, China, Iran and France. Italy alone had more than 10,000 dead.