This containment center
must be in office until March 25, Governor Cuomo said. The National Guard is deployed on site to ensure the supply of food to residents and to help with cleanup, in an effort to limit the spread of the virus. A new site for carrying out screening tests should also open.
This is not a quarantine, despite the use of the term confinement
by Governor Cuomo. People will continue to come and go as normal. The important gathering places
as schools, however, places of worship and community centers in the city will be closed for the next two weeks. Grocery stores and retail businesses are not affected.
It is the biggest public health challenge among those currently facing the state
, commented the governor, indicating that New Rochelle was likely the main source of contamination across the country, where a total of 760 people have contracted COVID-19.
On Monday, Governor Cuomo announced that the state had tasked detainees with producing hydroalcoholic gel, or disinfectant gel. He made this decision because of a shortage of this type of cleaning product across the United States, when the need is dire in New Rochelle.
Harvard suspends class
In neighboring Massachusetts, Harvard University announced the suspension of classes on its campus and asked students who live there to vacate their residences before Sunday. However, all courses are expected to be offered online starting March 23, upon return fromspring break“,”text”:”spring break”}}” lang=”fr”>spring break, the American equivalent of spring break.
A decision that was not taken lightly
, read a letter sent to students and staff by the president of the institution, Lawrence S. Bacow.
The college semester at Harvard ends at the end of April, and a return to class before it ends seems unlikely.
Coachella postponed
The Coachella music festival, which was scheduled to be held over two successive weekends in April in California, has been postponed to October, event promoter Goldenvoice has announced. The same goes for the Stagecoach country festival.
Coachella will now take place on the weekends of October 9-11 as well as October 16-18, while Stagecoach will take place October 23-25.
While the move comes at a time of general uncertainty, we take the safety and health of our customers, staff and the community very seriously, the organizers write in a statement. Recall that California has declared a state of emergency due to the coronavirus.
The Trump administration in search of solutions
Nationally, the toll now stands at 791 confirmed cases and 27 dead. Washington state remains the hardest hit, with 22 dead.
Five elected Republicans, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz, have also chosen to place themselves in quarantine after learning that they had come into contact with a person who contracted the coronavirus at the end of last month.
President Donald Trump met with his colleagues in Congress to discuss his strategy to fight the spread of COVID-19 on Tuesday, hours before the planned announcement of new measures.
Republican elected officials encouraged him to reduce social contributions levied on wages in order to increase the purchasing power of taxpayers who risk missing days of work because of illness. Democrats are pushing him to force companies to offer more paid sick leave to their employees.
