//National coronavirus updates: States race to fight nearly 400,000 cases with long-awaited medical shipments

National coronavirus updates: States race to fight nearly 400,000 cases with long-awaited medical shipments

The latest:There are more than 399,900 cases in the United States, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.By late Tuesday, the U.S. death toll surpassed 12,900 people.Globally, the number of cases has surpassed 1.4 million with more than 82,000 deaths, Hopkins reports.New York City’s death toll on Tuesday officially eclipsed the number of those killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11, health officials said.