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Medical workers from Lenox Hill Hospital come outside while people show gratitude as part of the nightly #ClapBecauseWeCare during the COVID-19 pandemic on May 5, 2020 in New York City. Image Credit: AFP

Washington: The US coronavirus death toll climbed by 2,333 in the past 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Tuesday, more than twice as many as the day before.

The Baltimore-based university said as of 8.30pm (4.30 UAE Wednesday) that the country had suffered a total of 71,022 deaths.