WASHINGTON / NEW YORK, March 8 (Reuters) – The United States on Sunday had nearly 450 cases of contamination and 19 deaths linked to the new coronavirus, a spread of the epidemic that has prompted New York State to declare the ’emergency state.
The number of cases in New York state rose to 105, 16 more than announced the day before, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. This toll includes 82 cases identified only in Westchester County, located in the suburbs of New York City, the most populous metropolis in the country.
More than half of the 50 states in the United States have announced cases of contamination with the new coronavirus, which appeared in December in China and which has since killed more than 3,600 people around the world.
Concerts and lectures are being canceled around the country, and universities are recommending that their students stay at home and take classes online.
On the other hand, the electoral campaign for the presidential election in November is continuing its course. On Saturday, President Donald Trump said he would continue to hold political rallies, which can sometimes bring together 20,000 people.
Vying for the Democratic primary, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden have so far not canceled any event in their election campaign.
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Asked Sunday during the program “Fox News Sunday”, the director of the infectious diseases unit of the national institutes of health, Anthony Fauci, did not exclude measures of containment similar to those taken in China and Italy .
“You don’t want to alarm people but given the spread we are seeing anything is possible, and that is why we must be prepared to take any appropriate action to contain and limit the epidemic,” he said. -he says.
The worst affected area in the United States is a retirement home in the Seattle suburbs. Washington State Governor Jay Inslee has indicated that he is considering banning large gatherings but not necessarily imposing more severe isolation measures.
The White House also has to deal with cases of contamination aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship, which is due to dock in Oakland on Monday after being held up for several days off the coast of California.
The ship’s 2,400 passengers will be placed in isolation in at least four dedicated centers and the 1,100 crew members will be confined on board.
(Susan Corwell, Nathan Layne, Steve Gorman and Barbara Goldberg, Blandine Hénault for the French version)
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