Nigeria, March 29 -- Barely 48 hours after the U.S. exceeded 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, the nation's death toll has doubled to more than 2,000.

It took about a month from the first report of a coronavirus death on February 29 to the number reaching 1,000 on Thursday.

By Sunday evening, the number of reported deaths passed 2, 200, according to compiled data from worldometer.

The total number of confirmed cases in the U.S. now stands at more than 130,000. More than 4,000 people have recovered.

New York, a city of over 18 million, now has nearly 60,000 infected people, almost half of the over 130, 000 total cases reported in the U.S.

The city, impaired by its mass population that makes it one of the world's most vibrant places...