People enjoy the beach despite an interdiction on swimming at Coney Island amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 24, 2020 in New York. (Photo: AFP)

The US coronavirus death toll has risen by 638 over the past 24 hours, the Johns Hopkins University tracker reported Sunday night.

After that relatively small increase, the US toll now stands at 97,686 lives as of 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Monday), according to the Baltimore-based university, and US cases of infection now number 1,641,585.