New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issues 'most drastic' order yet for ALL non-essential workers to stay home after 3,000 new coronavirus cases are confirmed - bringing total to 7,102 across the state
Daily Mail
March 20, 2020
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered all non-essential workers to stay home now in the most drastic step he has taken in the battle against coronavirus.
In an announcement on Friday, he increased the previous rule that 75 percent of the state's workforce had to stay home to 100 percent. The only workforces that are excluded are grocery stores, pharmacies, certain government workers and news organizations.
People will be allowed to go outside to exercise but he urged solitary activities like running or walking. There will not be limits on the hours people can leave their homes, but Cuomo is urging people to stay indoors as much as possible. 'Everybody has personal freedom and I'll always protect that. But everybody also has a responsibility,' he said.
There are now 7,102 cases in New York State. There are 1,939 new cases in New York City since yesterday, bringing the total to 4,408. The total increase in just one day in New York state is 2,950. The hospitalization rate is 18 percent.
Cuomo said the state was now testing more than had been done in China and South Korea. On Thursday night, 10,000 tests were done.
Cuomo's announcement came after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city was now the 'epicenter' of the coronavirus outbreak in the US with more than 4,000 confirmed cases and 26 deaths as he pleaded with the federal government to give him help before hospitals become overwhelmed.
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Bill de Blasio says NYC has become America's coronavirus 'epicenter' as he looks to turn hotels into hospitals and begs Trump to send help before 'we lose people who should not die'
Daily Mail
March 20, 2020
In an impassioned plea to President Trump on CNN, de Blasio said New York's hospitals would run out of ventilators and surgical masks in two or three weeks.
He said he was considering turning hotels and the Javits Center, a sprawling expo-center in Hell's Kitchen, into hospital 'annexes' but that the city desperately needed more supplies.
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New York City will release 40 inmates from custody 'based on their medical history and low risk to public safety' in a bid to prevent coronavirus spread in jails
Daily Mail
March 20, 2020
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio assured members of the public that the inmates would be selected based on their medical history and low risk to public safety.
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California governor Gavin Newsom issues statewide 'Stay At Home' order for 40 million people with NO END DATE - after warning 26 million WILL catch coronavirus in next eight weeks
Daily Mail
March 20, 2020
California's governor on Thursday issued a statewide 'stay at home order' directing residents to leave their homes only when necessary during the coronavirus pandemic as state officials predict that more than 25 million residents will be infected with COVID-19 within the next eight weeks.
It's unclear how long the 'stay at home order' will last and Gov Gavin Newsom said during a Thursday night press conference that he wasn't able to put a time period on it.
Just before the press conference, Newsom released a copy of a letter that he sent to Donald Trump in which he asked the president to send help 'immediately'.
'I respectfully request you immediately deploy the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to be stationed at the port of Los Angeles through September 1, 2020, to help decompress our current health care delivery system in the Los Angeles region in response to the COVID-19 outbreak,' Newsom's letter reads.
Newsom said officials project that roughly '56 per cent of our population - 25.5 million people - will be infected with the virus over an eight-week period'.
Earlier this week, Trump did say that the Navy hospital ships Mercy and Comfort would be pressed into service, one on each coast, as healthcare systems become badly strained during the pandemic.
1 comment:
Obviously the whole NYPD should stay home. They are clearly non-essential as virtually all criminals are instantly released ROR, so what's the point of arresting them?
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