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 the coronavirus is under control. The edition writes about it Deutsche Welle.

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, the number of hospitalized patients due to COVID-19 in the state has increased by only 200 people. He noted that this is the lowest increase in the last three weeks. This, according to the governor, means that "the situation is developing much better than forecasts."

“Mainly due to the effectiveness of the quarantine measures. They function better than everyone thought, ”Cuomo said.

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

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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Cuomo also promised to take measures to resume economic activity, but warned that such steps should be taken carefully and gradually. The governor also did not rule out new waves of infection due to the mutation of the coronavirus.

The number of infected in the US and the world

In general, in the United States, coronavirus infection is now affected, according to recent data, 462 thousand people, about 16,5 thousand Americans have died.

Spain ranks second in the incidence of COVID-19 in the world - 153 thousand cases, Italy comes in third with 143 thousand infected inhabitants. The highest mortality rate in the world, as before, in Italy is 18 deaths during the epidemic.

In China, where COVID-19 was first detected, approximately 82 infections were officially reported during the epidemic.

Around 1 million 600 thousand cases of the disease were registered worldwide, 95 thousand people died.

Recall: that the coronavirus epidemic in New York reached a peak, the doctor of the intensive care unit of one of the New York hospitals also wrote earlier. You can read more about this. in this publication.