New York, May 28 : The number of COVID-19 deaths in the US topped 100,000 on Wednesday, reaching 100,047, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
A total of 1,695,776 cases have been reported in the country, according to the CSSE, Xinhua reported.
New York, the country's worst-hit state in the pandemic, reported 364,965 cases and 29,370 deaths.
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois each reported over 5,000 deaths, the CSSE data showed.
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Source: IANS