'The horse has already left the stable': the governor of New York accused the White House of a slow reaction to the epidemic

The Governor of New York believes that the authorities should have acted much earlier to avoid an epidemic. He also believes that the virus did not enter the state from China. Cuomo encouraged learning from mistakes to be prepared for new outbreaks of the virus. This edition writes Strana.ua.

The coronavirus did not arrive in New York from China; it was imported from European countries. This statement was made by Governor Andrew Cuomo. He cited a study from Northeastern United States University. According to their results, as of March 1, when the state registered the first confirmed case of the disease, more than 10 thousand residents were already infected.

Cuomo believes that Italy has become a likely source of the virus.

The governor recalled that US President Donald Trump ordered a ban on entry from China on February 2 - more than a month after the first reports of an outbreak in Wuhan. Moreover, the decision to restrict entry from Europe was made only in March. At that time, the virus was already widespread in America.

“We closed the front door for entry from China, it was right. “But we left the back door open because the virus had flown out of China by the time we introduced the travel ban to China,” Cuomo said at the briefing.

The New York governor accused the US administration of being too slow to respond to the epidemic in China, from where alarm messages began to arrive in January and February.

He noted that over the past two months, 2,2 million people flew from Europe to New York and New Jersey airports. Many of them were probably carriers of coronavirus.

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Thus, New York moved into action only two months after the outbreak in China. “By the time we realized it,“ the horse had already left the stable, ”the governor said.

He added that it is important for the country to learn from the mistakes that have been made. After all, the infection, Cuomo believes, could flare up again in the fall. In addition, a new virus may even appear. “It will happen again, believe me. Let's not bury our heads in the sand, ”he urged.

Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus victims in New York continues to decline. 337 people died here per day, Cuomo said, the newspaper writes. «РИА Новости». The state governor noted that these are still terrifying numbers, but the number of deaths is decreasing if you look at the past few days.

Information on the reduction in mortality from COVID-19 is also confirmed by the schedule given by the authorities. It says that at the beginning of last week the state had no more than 474 deaths, but gradually this figure decreased and on Sunday amounted to 337.

The total number of hospitalized is also declining. According to Cuomo, on Sunday, April 26, 1052 people were admitted to hospitals.

Recall that on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced an outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 with a pandemic. According to the latest WHO data, more than 2,8 million cases of infection have been recorded in the world, over 193 thousand people have died.