The state of New York, the most affected in the United States by the coronavirus, authorized that as of June 1, some horse racing tracks and the Watkins Glen international car park will reopen -without public- as part of its slow return towards its reopening Governor Andrew Cuomo reported this Saturday.
“We can have economic activity without having a crowd, that’s great; we can do that in this state. But there are no crowds, there are no fans,” he said during his daily appearance.
He also reported that outpatient and elective surgeries will be allowed in Suffolk counties, Long Island (in the southeast of the state and extends to the city) as well as Westchester (north).
Cuomo did not explain why they will be started first in these areas, but did say that “no one should fear going to a hospital.”
“If you need a medical procedure, you must get it. Hospitals are safe places to go,” said Cuomo, who also reported a slight spike in deaths, with 157 occurring on Friday, compared to 132 on Thursday, the agency reported. news EFE.
On Wednesday there were also 157 deaths from the coronavirus in the state. The number of total deaths remained below 200 in the last week.
In the lines of hospitalizations and intubations, the curve has also continued to fall as well as new cases, with 400, compared to 437 the previous day “although it is still high,” said the governor to add that “the numbers have been stubborn” and that “we don’t want to go back to the hell we went through.”
Deaths from coronavirus in New York were near 800 per day at their highest peak and more than 1,000 infections in one day.
“As we reopen in phases, we are looking for every opportunity to reopen economic activity without crowds” to avoid going back on infections and deaths, said Cuomo, who on Friday allowed the reopening of five northern regions of the state that comply with the required criteria, including the beaches from next weekend.
However, the rest of the state, including the city where the majority of cases are concentrated, will have to wait until May 28, after extending its New York in Pause plan on Thursday, a response to the pandemic that includes confinement and closing of non-essential businesses among other measures.
Cuomo reiterated during his appearance that what happens “will depend on what we do. It is a unique situation not only for the government but for society.”
“We do not want a peak to arise (in the incidence) and that will depend on how people act, their behavior, the masks, the hand sanitizer,” he warned and indicated that apparently the new infections, which are occurring in people that has been kept in quarantine, have been spread by people in the same household who have left and entered the home.
The state of New York remains the great epicenter of the pandemic in the United States with 345,813 confirmed cases and 27,841 deaths, a figure similar to those of France and Spain and only below the United Kingdom and Italy.
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