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The US death toll from the coronavirus continues to climb.

More states and businesses are reopening across the country.

Meanwhile, the u-s death toll from the coronavirus continues to climb.

Nationwide, close to 80-thousand americans have died of the virus and more than 1.3 million people have been infected.

Elise preston reports.

Florida hair salons, nail salons and barber shops reopened monday...as much of the state entered phase two of its reopening plan.

We're making sure that everyone sanitizes and washes their hands before they come in and when they come in and as appointment's come to the shop they'll have to wait in their car.

Florida governor ron desantis gave the businesses the green light...with new requirements to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

We need to go based off facts and based off evidence.

The governors of arizona, indiana, and arkansas eased restrictions for restaurants in their states.

But in the nation's capital, mayor muriel bowser says the district will convert the dc convention center into a makeshift hospital...and indicated the likelihood of the state reopening may 15th - may not be possible.

We have yet to see a 14-day decline in community transmission.

And so we continue to have a lot of work to do to stop the spread of the virus in our city.

-nats- the state worst hit...new york...áisá preparing to reopen parts of the state friday...as hospitalization and death rates in the state dropped to levels not seen since march.

We just made it over the mountain.

No one wants to go back down the other side of the mountain.

Governor cuomo says businesses that are low risk can resume operations this week.

Landscaping, gardening//drive-in movie theaters.

Talk about going back to the future.

As new york moves forward&..new analysis from the cdc shows that from mid-march to early may about 24- thousand more people died in new york city than researchers would normally expect.

That's about 5300 more deaths than previously attributed to covid 19 during that time.

Elise preston cbs news new york.