An EMT worker wheels a patient into Wyckoff Hospital in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (Photo: AFP)

More than 1,200 people have died of coronavirus complications in the United States in the past day, John Hopkins University said Sunday evening at 8:30pm EST (Monday 0030 GMT).

The Baltimore-based university, which has been keeping a running tally of global coronavirus numbers, said there are at least 337,072 confirmed infections in the US with 9,633 deaths.