Police tape reading "Do Not Cross" is wrapped around a gazebo with view of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center on April 22, 2020 in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Photo: AFP)

The United States on Wednesday recorded 1,738 deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a lower toll than the day before, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University.

The new deaths bring the total number of COVID-19 fatalities in the US to 46,583 since the outbreak began there, by far the highest figures recorded by any country caught in the global pandemic.