Health workers wheel a body outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center, during the COVID-19 outbreak, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Mar 30, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

NEW YORK: The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday (Mar 30), the deadliest day yet in the country's mounting crisis, while New York cheered the arrival of a gleaming 1,000-bed US Navy hospital ship as a sign of hope in the city's desperate fight.