Coronavirus mortality in New York set a daily record, Cuomo claims that the virus is taken under control

In the last 800 hours alone, nearly XNUMX people have died from coronavirus in New York—a daily record for the region. At the same time, state Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the situation with coronavirus was under control. The publication writes about this Deutsche Welle.

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Coronavirus under control: is this so?

Despite continued growth in coronavirus deaths, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo believes the epidemic is under control. On Thursday, April 9, Cuomo said that over the past day in the state, the number of hospitalized due to COVID-19 has increased by only 200 people. He noted that this is the lowest increase in the last three weeks. According to the governor, this means that "the situation is developing much better than forecasts."

“Mainly due to the effectiveness of quarantine measures. They are functioning better than everyone thought,” Cuomo emphasized.

At the same time, New York State set a sad new record for the number of deaths - 799 in one day. The governor is confident that these numbers will decline if residents of the region continue to adhere to social distancing measures.

The number of infected in New York

Only the state of New York bypassed all countries of the world (except the United States) in the number of infections with the coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the newspaper writes. «Radio Svoboda».

As of Thursday, April 9, state authorities confirmed the virus in another 10 thousand people. The total number of infected as a result amounted to almost 160 thousand.

Cuomo called the outbreak of the coronavirus a “silent explosion,” adding that COVID-19 “struck society with the same randomness and became the same evil that we encountered during the September 11 attacks.”

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