new york the us has reported 82404 confirmed covid19 cases as of 6 pm us eastern time on thursday according to the center for systems science and engineering csse at johns hopkins university the country has surpassed china to become the nation with most covid19 cases in the world according to the cssethe nationwide tally grew over 10000 cases in less than five hours the state of new york has become the epicentre of the countrys outbreak with 37802 cases reported new jersey and california have reported 6876 and 3802 cases respectively xinhua reported citing the cssetotal covid19linked deaths in the us reached 1178 while 281 of them occurred in new york city and 100 in kings county of washington statemore on covid19coronavirus live updates from india coronavirus pandemic complete coverage coronavirus what are the symptoms 52 testing sites for coronavirus in india helpline numbers for states and uts do fever and cough mean you need covid19 test how to stay safe how to quarantine yourself at homethe johns hopkins university data showed that china including the mainland and hong kong macao and taiwan regions reported 82034 cases as of 6 pm thursday us eastern timechinas national health commission reported 81285 confirmed cases on the chinese mainland by the end of wednesday beijing time meanwhile 410 confirmed cases had been reported in the hong kong special administrative region sar 30 confirmed cases in the macao sar and 235 in taiwanconfirmed covid19 cases worldwide reached 526044 with 23709 deaths according to the csse