The coronavirus epidemic is hitting the largest American metropolis head-on.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Saturday April 11 that the city’s public schools would remain closed until the end of the school year as the coronavirus epidemic hits America’s largest metropolis head-on. .
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«To tell you that we will not be able to reopen our schools for the rest of the school year is painful but I can also tell you that it is the right thing to do», Declared the democratic councilor during a press conference.
New York public schools had been closed since March 16 and were initially scheduled to reopen “as soon as possibleOn April 20, but the mayor of New York did not rule out at the time the fact that they could remain closed until the end of the school year.
The closure affects 1.1 million children who were due to complete their classes at the end of June.
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In by far the worst-hit American city, shocking drone footage from local media showed dozens of sketchy coffins being buried in a mass grave on Hart Island. This island in the northeast of the Bronx, nicknamed for a long time “the island of the dead” because used since the XIXth century as a vast cemetery for the indigent, today hosts 24 burials per day, against 25 on average per week before the pandemic. , according to the local administration.
The United States became the first country in the world to exceed 2,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus in one day, with 2,108 additional deaths recorded in 24 hours, according to the Johns Hopkins University count at 8:30 p.m. local on Friday. The total number of deaths recorded in the United States is 18,586, very close to the most bereaved country, Italy, which deplores 18,849 deaths, but with a population five times smaller.
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