The US state of New York, which is particularly badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic, wants to slowly relax its restrictions again from Friday – but only in regions that meet certain conditions. These included declining infection numbers, sufficient free hospital capacity and sufficient test and follow-up capacities, as Governor Andrew Cuomo said today.
If a region fulfills all of these conditions, it is allowed to enter a three-phase opening process, which is monitored by a regional body. In the first phase, construction work that is not systemically relevant may be resumed. If the numbers worsen again, easing can be reversed.
Currently, only three rural regions in the north of the state met these requirements, Cuomo added. The metropolis of New York, where around half of the state’s 19 million inhabitants live, does not meet the requirements.
The number of new infections in the state continued to decline. 161 people died yesterday after being infected with the virus. In March and April, up to 800 people per day had died from the virus. So far, almost 330,000 people have contracted the virus in the state. More than 26,000 died.
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