In New York, they plan to cancel quarantine and start testing for COVID-19 in pharmacies

In New York, there is a decline in the number of coronavirus victims. In this regard, the authorities started talking about the abolition of quarantine. About how this will happen, told the publication TASS. Also in pharmacies will be allowed to test for COVID-19, which will help determine the number of carriers of the virus.

The situation in New York

In the state of New York, the number of deaths associated with coronavirus was 367 in the last 437 hours, compared to 19 in the previous day, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. “The rates of hospitalizations, connections to ventilators and mortality rates are decreasing. Even new cases of COVID-XNUMX have decreased. But all this is not enough, ”Cuomo said.

So, the number of deaths on April 24 was 437, on April 23 - 422, on April 22 - 438, on April 21 - 474.

At the same time, the number of new infections in the state has increased by about 1 over the past day, the governor added. On the previous day, this figure was 1,1 thousand. “This is more than we would like, but less than the 21 day average,” Cuomo said.

How do you plan to quarantine

The sanitary restrictions introduced in New York due to the pandemic are planned to be removed in two stages.

First, it is planned to resume construction and production. It is also planned to open private enterprises whose activities are not associated with a high risk of transmission of infection.

After this, it is planned to remove restrictions on the bulk of private companies. The latter will decide on their own: whether to start work while maintaining the likelihood of infection of employees.

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The interval between these stages will be two weeks. This time is necessary for the analysis of changes in the situation as a whole.

Pharmacy Testing

Also in New York will be allowed to test for coronavirus in pharmacies, the publication said. Air force. This decision was previously announced by the state governor.

Testing will be conducted by about 5000 pharmacies, this will allow you to do up to 40 thousand tests per day.

As shown antibody testingconducted in New York, COVID-19 passed millions of people.

Recall that the coronavirus epidemic was recorded at the end of 2019 in Central China. Later it covered most countries. On March 11, the World Health Organization recognized the outbreak of the virus as a pandemic.

In America, according to Johns Hopkins University, recorded more than 941,6 thousand cases of coronavirus infection and 54 deaths. In the world, the number of infected is more than 024 million people, over 2,7 thousand have died.