Coronavirus sucks the life out of 102,000 humans across the world

The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 102,000 Friday. 

More than 1.6 millon are infected wih the deadly virus that emerged in Wuhan in China in December.  Also, 3,216 have died in Hubei province, where Wuhan is the capital.

In Hong Kong so far, four people have lost their lives.

And in Italy 18,849 are dead. Smaller nations have not been spared of the destruction of lives by the hundreds. In Bolivia, 19 have died, so far.

Worldwide, the number of deaths hit another sad milestone, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, while confirmed infections reached about 1.7 million.

In the U.S. the virus cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state metropolitan area of 20 million people connected by a tangle of subways, trains and buses.

In the bedroom communities across the Hudson River in New Jersey, to the east on Long Island and north to Connecticut, officials were recording some of the worst outbreaks in the country, even as public health authorities expressed optimism that the pace of infections appeared to be slowing.

As of Friday, the New York metropolitan area accounted for more than half the nation’s over 18,000 deaths, with other hot spots in places such as Detroit, Louisiana and Washington, D.C.-AP/The Standard