“the worst is over” in New York State, where the 10,000 dead mark has been crossed

Published on : 13/04/2020 – 18:55

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Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday that New York State has surpassed 10,000 deaths from Covid-19. According to him, “the worst is over”, but the population must continue to respect the confinement. With 671 dead in 24 hours, the state remains the most affected in the country.

“The worst is over, if we continue to be intelligent,” warned, Monday, April 13, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York State, where the threshold of 10,000 deaths has been crossed.

In this US state severely affected by the new coronavirus, which has recorded 671 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, the figures show a clear slowdown in new hospitalizations. They were 118 over the last 24 hours against more than 1,000 on April 3 and the previous days.

“We are controlling the spread” of the virus, said the governor. “If we do something stupid, you will see those numbers go up tomorrow,” he added. New York State reached 10,056 Covid-19 dead on Monday.

Fear of premature recovery

The first “wave” of the new coronavirus is not over in the United States, but experts are already warning that a second wave will fall on the country if ever the deconfinement was too brutal, or even intervened as early as May as hopes the government of Donald Trump.

After half a million cases identified, the rate of contamination seems to be stabilizing. The United States “is nearing the peak,” US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) director Robert Redfield said on NBC on Monday. This should not lead, according to him, to cancel the instructions of social distancing and teleworking overnight. The reopening will be “a gradual, step-by-step, data-driven process,” he said.

“It’s never been done before,” insisted Andrew Cuomo. “I want to see first how it’s going in other countries,” he said, noting that some Asian countries were seeing a rise in the virus.

With AFP

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