Death toll rises inside New York hospitals at coronavirus epicenter

The number of people who died from the coronavirus continued to rise on Monday as the governor of New York said the state was showing tentative signs of the coronavirus outbreak. The United States is entering what a senior official warned on Sunday would be the "hardest" week of the coronavirus crisis as the death toll mounted.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said confirmed coronavirus-related deaths reached 4,758 as of Monday, an increase of 599 from Sunday, compared with an increase of 594 during the previous 24 hours. Cases in the state, the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, increased by 7 percent in 24 hours to 130,680, Cuomo said. Hospitalizations, admissions to intensive care units and intubations - the process of inserting a breathing tube for use in mechanical ventilation - had all declined.