The mayor of New York, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States, called on Monday for the coercive containment measures adopted in the most affected states to be generalized to the whole country, and again called for aid from federal government emergency.
“These containment measures must [fermant les activités non essentielles et obligeant les gens à rester chez eux], which New York and California have taken, be everywhere, ”Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN.
“We must take these extreme measures,” added the mayor of the first American metropolis, which had already Sunday evening nearly 11,000 confirmed cases – nearly a third of American cases – and 99 deaths.
“It will not be forever, but we have two to three difficult months ahead of us,” he added, while millions of Americans now live under a more or less coercive confinement regime, but Donald Trump has refused to impose such a measure on the whole of the United States.
After meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday, he reopened a call on the federal government on Monday for the immediate dispatch of respirators and protective masks, indicating that current stocks would be exhausted this week.
“There has to be intervention from the federal government, say this is the first place that needs respirators and masks, this is the second and third, that it is not a free market of who has the most silver “.
“I want to see literally hundreds of respirators and hundreds of thousands and then millions of masks because if they don’t start arriving this week, we’ll get to the point where people can’t be saved when they could have been. being “.
“A few days ago, I thought we could hold out until April, but it’s going so fast now that I can’t even say that anymore.”
New York is also awaiting help from the National Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to set up additional hospital beds.
The large conference center at the Javits Center in Manhattan, now deserted, must be transformed into a hospital center. De Blasio said he hoped it would be “operational” this week.
Donald Trump ordered on Sunday that thousands of beds be installed in New York, California and Washington state, the most affected by the pandemic.
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