New quarantine zone to be created in New York due to Covid 2019
'11.03.2020'
Source: bbc.com
A quarantine zone will be created north of New York, where the largest in the United States focus of coronavirus. The military will be sent there. The publication shared the details Air force.
“The question of life and death”
In New York, they will create a special zone of infection with a coronavirus infection with a radius of 1,6 kilometers. It will be located in the city of New Rochelle in the Westchester area north of the metropolis. This was announced by State Governor Andrew Cuomo.
According to the governor, there is probably the largest infection center in the United States.
Cuomo said that the US National Guard will be sent to the quarantine zone, they will deliver food to residents who are in the quarantine of the house and disinfect public places.
In turn, the mayor of the city of New Rochelle Noam Bramson said that the military will not perform military or police functions. He emphasized that “this is not an exclusion or quarantine zone”, therefore “no one is allowed to enter.”
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The state governor has confirmed that there will be no restrictions on entering the city. However, he noted that crowded places - schools, public places and large enterprises - will be closed for two weeks. A nursing home, which is not in the contaminated zone, will also be closed, because the elderly are especially poorly tolerated by the coronavirus infection. “This is a very serious measure, but it is the largest hotbed in the country, and it is literally a matter of life and death,” Cuomo said.
According to local media, the infection center in New Rochelle is a local synagogue. It is reported that the first identified infected resident was the man who visited her. About a thousand parishioners of this temple are now in quarantine.
The number of cases in the USA
According to the estimates of the publication CNN, As of March 11, the number of coronavirus cases in the United States had reached 1000. The number of patients identified has doubled since Sunday, March 8. 31 people died.
The worst situation in the state of Washington, where 273 cases and 24 deaths from the Chinese virus were detected.
California and New York are the only other states with over 100 cases, while Massachusetts is approaching 92.
Despite this, US President Donald Trump said that he would not pass the coronavirus test after attending a conference, among which there was an infected COVID-19 person. At the same time, five Republicans, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Senator Ted Cruz, voluntarily quarantined after this conference. They shook hands with the infected, the source said.
