New York Has More Coronavirus Cases Than Any Single Country In New York state, over 160,000 people <br />have been diagnosed with COVID-19. That is more than any other <br />single country in the world. The virus has also spread <br />through the state's nursing homes, <br />with 4,100 cases and 1,200 <br />deaths among residents. Since the first reported outbreak in December, approximately 1.6 million people worldwide <br />have been diagnosed with the virus. In the entire U.S., there are <br />over 450,000 confirmed cases <br />of the novel coronavirus. More than 16,600 people in the U.S. have died<br /> as a result of the virus. At least <br />95,600 people have died worldwide.