US becomes country with most COVID-19 deaths

The US death toll has surpassed 20,000. The US is now the country with the highest number of COVID-19 related deaths worldwide. Earlier today, the US passed Italy in the number of most confirmed cases.

The casualties reported on Saturday put the US death toll at 18,860 or 11 more than Italy's 18,849. The US has already overtaken all other countries in terms of the number of confirmed coronavirus cases.

After New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared schools would be closed until September, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo contradicted the announcement and said the decision has not yet been made.

New York closed schools in mid-March, months before the official end of the school year in June.

"So I understand the mayor's position, which is he wants to close them until June, and we may do that, but we're going to do it in a coordinated sense with the other localities," Cuomo told reporters, noting that it was he who had the "legal authority" to make the decision.

"It's not going to be decided in the next few days because we don't know," he added.