Coronavirus latest: New York reports more than 200 daily deaths for first time since May

The special rapporteurs said that Covid-19 vaccines ordered by the Palestinian Authority might not be delivered to the West Bank and Gaza for many weeks, leaving more than 4.5m Palestinians unprotected.

Authorities attributed a further 426 deaths to coronavirus, following 405 on Wednesday that marked the first time more than 400 fatalities were reported in a single day.

Over the past week, Texas has averaged about 302 deaths a day, a rate second only to California's 516 a day.

New York, California and New Jersey are the only other states that have ever averaged more than 300 deaths a day during the pandemic.

An additional 20,047 new confirmed cases were reported by authorities, which marked the third day in a row of more than 20,000 confirmed infections.

New York on Thursday reported more than 200 coronavirus deaths for the first time in eight months.

A further 202 fatalities were attributed to coronavirus, state authorities revealed this afternoon, up from 168 on Wednesday.

Over the past week, New York has averaged about 173 fatalities a day, a rate that is surpassed only by California, Texas, Pennsylvania and Arizona, according to a Financial Times analysis of Covid Tracking Project data.

Florida, Illinois, Tennessee and Alabama are the only other states that have averaged more than 100 fatalities a day over the past week.

New York averaged about 764 deaths a day during the worst of its crisis in April last year.

Adjusted for population, New York has over the past week averaged about 0.9 deaths per 100,000 people a day, which puts it in the middle of a ranking of US states by this metric.

That compares to top-ranked Arizona with a rate of about 2.4 fatalities per 100,000 people a day, a rate of 1.3 in California, about 1 a day in Texas and about 0.74 a day in Florida.

Of the 2.1m doses allocated to the state, 1.02m had been administered as of Thursday, with signs that the pace of the rollout has been accelerating over the past two weeks, according to state data.

The state reported more than 22,000 new cases, more than twice the number of cases reported at the peak of the previous outbreak last summer, and more than 400 deaths on Wednesday.

California on Thursday reported 552 coronavirus fatalities, among the biggest daily increases in its death toll, as the availability of intensive care unit beds statewide hit a record low

The capital, which accounts for about 16 per cent of England’s population, has received 10 per cent of the nearly 2.4m doses that have been distributed across the nation