Source: KEYSTONE/AP/John Minchillo
For the first time since mid-March, fewer than 10,000 people in New York state are in hospital because of the novel coronavirus. There are currently 9,786 cases in the state’s hospitals, Governor Andrew Cuomo said at a press conference on Sunday.
Most recently there were 789 new admissions within 24 hours, it was said when the latest figures were presented, a new low after the peak of around 3,200 new cases in a single day in March.
Cuomo admitted that data on weekends were often lower due to different reporting deadlines, but the general trend was good. He also announced a hospital supply purchasing association for seven states in the northeastern United States.
The state of New York had confirmed 18,909 deaths in connection with the new coronavirus as of Sunday, and Cuomo reported 280 new ones on Sunday. In the past week there were an average of more than 4,000 new confirmed diseases per day, a total of almost 313,000 tests were positive, the number of unreported infected people is many times higher, according to experts. Almost 20 million people live in the state of New York, almost half of them in the metropolis of New York City.
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