The governor of NY, Andrew Cuomo, asked this Sunday to the Administration of the presidente Donald Trump to take the necessary precautions against the new mutation of the virus covid-19 that has arisen in the UK and it spreads quickly.
He stressed during a press conference to discuss the pandemic, that several European countries have already imposed new restrictions on people traveling from the UK.
The measures include a travel ban from that country as well as requiring the negative test but U.S has not taken any action in response, which the Democratic governor considers “reprehensible.”
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Cuomo questioned that six daily flights still arrive from that country to the airport John F. Kennedy (JFK) of NY “and we have done absolutely nothing.”
“For me this is reprehensible because it is what happened during the spring” when the pandemic exploded in EE.UU. he said and stated that at the moment “the variant in the UK is arriving by airplanes at the airport JFK”.
“One hundred and twenty countries require a test. We do not. Other European countries have imposed a ban. We do not have it and today the variant is taking a plane and landing in the JFK. How many times in life do you have to make the same mistake before learning “he said.
He recalled that the Port Authority, that manages the bridges, highways and ports of NY and New Jersey, does not have the authority to ban passengers or monitor their health, which is a task of the government federal.
On December 14, the British Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, warned about a “new variant” that is spreading very quickly from the SARS-CoV-2, he coronavirus what causes the covid-19, that had been identified in the UK.
Hancock said that British scientists had detected “a new variant of coronavirus that may be associated with the more rapid spread in southern England.”
The governor asked the federal government to consider multiple restrictions in the wake of the new variant of covid-19, including imposing mandatory tests on people traveling from the UK to this country as well as a new travel ban from Europe.
According to Cuomo, the actions he recommends are rooted in lessons learned in March, when the federal government was slow to impose a European travel ban that allowed the virus to spread uncontrollably throughout New York state and the country. .
The governor also indicated in his conference that in New York there are 6,185 covid patients in hospitals, 23 less than on Saturday, 822 new admissions and 123 deaths.
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