New York State, which Donald Trump had at one time considered placing in quarantine, alone accounts for nearly half of the officially declared cases in the United States. Its governor Andrew Cuomo communicated Sunday a new toll of nearly 60,000 cases and 965 deaths.
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correspondent in New York
IThese are usually crowded sidewalks, now almost deserted. These homeless people, who could hardly be discerned in the industrious hive of Manhattan, and who now stand out, reigning over a patch of tarmac like the outcasts, condemned in advance, of a society fighting for its survival in the face of a killer virus. And then there are the sirens. These hoots so familiar to all those who, even without ever having set foot in New York, reveled in crime films and television series, a must-see piece of the American dream as surely as the palm trees of Los Angeles and the cowboys of the Monument Valley.
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