Coronavirus: horror scenes in New York, a megalopolis that has become a “war zone”

New York State has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States. On the evening of Monday, March 30, there were more than 67,000 confirmed cases and more than 1,200 victims. In the megalopolis of the east coast, hospitals are running out of steam and the deaths are piling up.

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Engaged in a race against time to face the peak of the pandemic, New York welcomed on Monday March 30 the arrival of a hospital ship. The military ship USNS Comfort, with a capacity of 1,000 beds and 12 operating theaters, arrived at around 10:30 am local time. It should make it possible to unload New York hospitals of patients who do not require treatment related to the coronavirus.

1,000-bed hospital ship, field hospital in Central Park … New York launches major maneuvers https://t.co/B3e6Yd1FUi pic.twitter.com/dsJ5Hxg1JN

— LCI (@LCI) March 31, 2020

The hospital ship @USNSComfort passes under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York Bay. Its 1,000 beds will be used to relieve NY hospitals of patients other than coronavirus patients pic.twitter.com/9QRocTjbCo

— Xavier Yvon (@xavieryvon) March 30, 2020

In the back of a refrigerated truck

An unbearable scene among many others, that filmed by a New Yorker, and broadcast on social networks, showing masked and gloved men and women, protective charlotte on their heads. They are in the middle of the street, in the back of a refrigerated truck loading the lifeless body of a person who died from the coronavirus.

More than 67,000 cases of contamination

The megalopolis of the east coast of United States, very dense and home to 12 million people, is becoming the global home ofepidemic. In all, more than 67,000 cases of contamination have been identified there over the past ten days, which is twice as many as in France.

Pandemic: In New York City, which experiences a rhythm of one death every 3 minutes, the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan has changed color and has been transformed into a giant beacon that night. pic.twitter.com/Zo3sXlnkSO

– French Info (@InfosFrancaises) March 31, 2020

It’s a war zone here

In saturated hospitals, the sick are treated even in the corridors. “It’s a war zone here. Every day, I see only pain and suffering. We have patients who are in their thirties, who are intubated and who are very ill,” says a nurse from an establishment in the district of Brooklyn, on CNN television.

We will fight every way we can to save every life we can.

Thank you, USNS Comfort. Welcome to New York. pic.twitter.com/ppGrJ0rGE5

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 30, 2020

The United States has become in recent days the country with the most confirmed cases – more than 163,000, for more than 3,000 deaths, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, updated continuously.

New York’s Empire State Building was lit up like an ambulance Monday night in honor of first responders and medical professionals on the front lines of the city’s coronavirus outbreak pic.twitter.com/tzhR3tFFzg

— TIME (@TIME) March 31, 2020

The virus is one step ahead of us

“The virus has been ahead of us from day one,” New York state governor said on Monday Andrew Cuomo during a press briefing. “You never win in trying to catch up. You have to plan for in two, three, four weeks, when it is the peak (of the epidemic), and be sure that we will then be in a position to win the battle. “.

Right now healthcare professionals are risking their lives.

We are all in their debt.

They deserve to have every piece of equipment they need to do their job — it’s the least we can do. pic.twitter.com/DnweX9sECO

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 30, 2020

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