After sex scandal, now also corona test riot around governor New York | Abroad

Media reports that brother Chris Cuomo, among others, could be tested urgently last year. At the time, the state lab could only process a few hundred tests per day for an area of ​​19 million residents, The Washington Post writes. Chris, a well-known CNN journalist, was also found to be infected with the virus at the end of March. The governor’s mother and sister were also reportedly able to undergo accelerated testing.

The revelation comes at a sensitive time for Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Democrat is already under fire because several women accuse him of sexual harassment. An investigation is underway into those complaints and into allegations that during the corona crisis, mortality rates among nursing home residents in New York were mixed.

Governor employees do not want to confirm that Cuomo’s family members were priority tested. Because of the right to privacy of the data subjects, they should not say anything about this. Governor Cuomo had spoken out about his brother’s corona infection last year. According to him, it showed that everyone is equal for the virus.

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