New York extends confinement until May 15

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, announced this Thursday that the confinement of the population in this North American state will continue at least until May 15 to stop the advance of the coronavirus in the territory, where there are already some 215,000 cases, including more than 14,000 deaths.

“New York’s pause policies will be extended, in coordination with other states, until May 15,” he said in the daily appearance, without specifying which other states, according to CNN.

Cuomo, anticipating journalists’ questions, has refused to “make projections beyond that period, which is a month, because people need certainty and clarity in order to plan.”

In any case, he has insisted that the de-escalation call “will depend on what the data says.” So far, New York has 214,832 people infected with coronavirus, with more than 14,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In recent days, the New York leader has indicated that the “peak” has been exceeded and the contagion curve begins to flatten into a “plateau.” In this regard, he has indicated that the people admitted by Covid-19 have gone from 18,000 to 17,000 and patients in intensive care have also begun to decrease “significantly”.

Despite this “good news”, the governor has stressed that infections continue to be registered, some 2,000 more in the last 24 hours. On this day, 606 new deaths have also been added, he added.

“We have controlled the beast,” he asserted, while blaming it on social distancing measures, without which “the situation would be much worse, we would be in a really bad position.”

For this reason, he has emphasized the importance of “not losing the progress achieved” with an accelerated return to normality. Before recovering the ‘status quo’, the health system will have to be strengthened and diagnostic tests carried out on a massive scale to detect infected people and isolate them and their contacts, he warned.

“We have stopped everything. Now how do we go about turning the machine back on in a coordinated way that does not trigger the number of infections? That is the balance we are trying to achieve, “he confessed.

One more day he wanted to influence the idea that “this is a time of transformation for society”: “There are lessons that we must learn. We need to do things differently, we can do things differently, we can do them better.

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