Declining patient numbers
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Makeshift hospital in New York’s Central Park is being dismantled
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The makeshift hospital in New York’s Central Park is being dismantled.
Photo: AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY
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New York New York is particularly hard hit by the pandemic. However, the numbers are now slowly falling. The makeshift hospital is now being dismantled in Central Park. There are first easings in the state, but not in the metropolis itself.
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A makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients in New York’s Central Park is being dismantled due to declining patient numbers. The US aid organization Samaritan’s Purse began dismantling the tents on Monday. The Christian organization set up the makeshift hospital with 68 beds at the end of March to relieve New York hospitals in the corona pandemic. The last of 190 patients was discharged on May 5, according to a spokeswoman.
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The novel corona virus hit New York harder than any other US city and resulted in the deaths of around 20,000 people in the east coast metropolis. The US health authority CDC now assumes that the number of corona deaths in New York could be more than 5000 higher than officially reported. This was suggested by calculations of the total number of deaths, it said.
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In the meantime, however, the increase in the number of infections has slowed. As Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday, 161 people died as a result of a corona infection in the entire state of New York within 24 hours. At the height of the contagion wave in April, there had been almost 800 deaths in one day. According to a census by Johns Hopkins University in New York State, almost 27,000 people died.
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Cuomo imposed a strict curfew on March 22nd because of the dramatic situation. Almost all shops had to close, only employees in systemically important professions have been allowed to go to work since then.
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In three regions of the east coast state, however, the situation has improved so significantly that the restrictions are being relaxed again. As of Friday, certain companies will be allowed to resume operations, as Cuomo announced. However, New York City is exempt from the easing. The metropolis is expected to remain in a state of emergency until June.
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The situation has also improved slightly across the country: on Monday, fewer than 900 new fatalities were recorded in the USA for the second day in a row. With more than 80,000 deaths and 1.3 million infected, the US remains the hardest hit country.
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Most recently, an increase in the number of infections was recorded in the capital Washington. Mayor Muriel Bowser therefore opened a makeshift hospital on the exhibition grounds on Monday.
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