New York, which has become the epicenter of the novel coronavirus epidemic in the United States, is emptied of its inhabitants, confined.
The streets which are usually teeming with people are empty. The main arteries of the Big Apple no longer know the traffic of cars. In New York, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus epidemic in the United States, containment is the official instruction. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on March 16 the closure of schools, bars and restaurants, followed on Sunday by the restriction of activity to only businesses deemed essential, including supermarkets, pharmacies and internet service providers. . The city now has more than 16,000 cases of contamination with the virus, nearly a third of diagnoses nationwide. In the United States, at least 728 patients with Covid-19 have died.
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“These containment measures taken by New York and California must be taken everywhere. We must take these extreme measures, ”pleaded the mayor, while Donald Trump, focused on the good health of the economy, calls for a rapid return to normal for workers. “It is a national emergency,” for his part assured Governor Andrew Cuomo, who appealed to the federal government to order private companies to manufacture respirators and masks.
To cope with an influx of patients, a hospital ship with a capacity of 1,000 beds must leave for New York within two weeks.
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