New York, a state of nearly 20 million inhabitants, is the most affected in the United States by the Covid-19 epidemic: more than 52,000 cases out of the 125,000 infected people in the country. Attacked for his management of the crisis, Donald Trump is studying the quarantine of certain states, such as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The hypothesis was quickly abandoned under pressure from local authorities. “I’m not even sure it’s legal. When you restrict a country geographically, you cripple the whole financial system.”, said Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State. However, within the States, measures exist: in New York, businesses are closed and groupings are prohibited, confinement has been decreed until further notice in California. Provisions far from draconian isolation elsewhere in the world.
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