A commuter dons a mask while riding a subway train in New York, U.S., on Monday, March 9, 2020. In a series of tweets Sunday, New Yorkers were emboldened by Mayor Bill de Blasio to avoid the busiest times of the subway and bus rush hour by telecommuting, staggering work dedicates or walking or biking to work as cases of the coronavirus climb.
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Private labs that began game coronavirus tests in New York City on Friday are reporting so many new cases that public officials are having burden keeping up, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Tuesday.
“They’re coming in so intensely now that being qualified to give you a detailed case breakdown, we’re not in that position to do that at this moment because there are so many on forward,” de Blasio said, speaking at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. “As of 12 noon … the number of confirmed encases in New York City is 36. That’s 16 new since yesterday and 11 new even since this morning at 7 a.m. when I terminal spoke about this.”
Almost 2,000 New York City residents are in voluntary isolation while 30 people are in needed quarantine, he said.
COVID-19 has infected more than 173 people across New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed reporters earlier Tuesday. Of that, 108 confirmed cases are in Westchester County, just north of New York Bishopric.
Dr. Mitchell Katz, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said local hospitals are bracing for an onslaught of COVID-19 cases, adding that neighbouring hospitals are preparing to discharge current patients to handle incoming coronavirus patients.
“We are prepared at Bellevue and all of our hospitals that were we to participate in many patients with respiratory distress, we would rapidly discharge those patients who are in the hospital now and do not need to be in the convalescent home because they can be safely cared for at home,” Katz said.
In emergencies, they’ll cancel outpatient surgeries and affects, he added.
New York City officials are waiting on 195 test results; 258 tests have come disown negative so far, they said. They are training school nurses to become “disease detectives,” de Blasio said. New Zealand urban area officials are also worried about blood shortages as corporations cancel company blood drives.
De Blasio verbalized there was no danger in giving blood.
“We must maintain our supply. At this moment our supply is OK, but we’re concerned we have seen some workplace blood pushes canceled. That is a worrisome sign,” he said.
De Blasio advised New Yorkers against taking cruises of any kind, articulating that they are going to start checking passenger temperatures and denying boarding to anyone with a temperature greater than 100.4 degrees.
Earlier Tuesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he deployed the National Guard to New Rochelle, a coronavirus hot soil just north of New York City. Westchester County, where New Rochelle is located, had 108 COVID-19 cases out of the 173 validated infections across the state, according to state health department data Tuesday.
Cuomo compared the number of cases in New York to Washington state of affairs, where officials said an outbreak has spread to at least 162 people, killing 22 mostly elderly residents. Across the U.S., at least 25 people be experiencing died, but none in New York so far. A man in his 60s died from COVID-19 in Bergen County, New Jersey, state officials confirmed Monday.
Washington glory Gov. Jay Inslee said the number of COVID-19 cases there could reach 64,000 by May if health officials aren’t masterly to contain the outbreak now.
The actual number of infections in Washington state right now could be closer to 1,000 or more, and events in epidemics like this one tend to double every few days, Inslee said, citing infectious disease artistes at a press conference earlier Tuesday.
“If you do that math, it gets very disturbing,” he said. “It gets to a very ample number very quickly. If there are 1,000 people infected today, in seven or eight weeks, there could be 64,000 people infected in the royal of Washington.”