A woman wearing a face mask walks past a notice board with COVID-19 preventive instructions at a Macy's store in New York, the United States, on Oct. 16, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)

New York state reported 33,366 fatalities, at the top of the U.S. state-level death toll list.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19  -- U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 220,000 on Monday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

With the national caseload topping 8.2 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 220,020 as of 4:25 p.m. local time (2025 GMT), according to the CSSE.

New York state reported 33,366 fatalities, at the top of the U.S. state-level death toll list. Texas recorded the second most deaths of 17,468. The states of California, New Jersey and Florida all confirmed more than 16,000 deaths, the tally showed.