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New York registers lowest number of hospitalized by covid-19

EFE Agency

New York / 11.04.2021 14:26:07

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The state of New York, in the United States, epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, registered this Sunday its lowest number of hospitalized by covid-19 since December 2020 while its fully vaccinated population approaches 25 percent.

The governor of the region, Andrew Cuomo, disclosed that there are 4 thousand people hospitalized for the coronavirus in the territory, the lowest figure since December 2, 2020, and the rate of positives on all the tests carried out has been reduced to 2.99 percent.

At the same time, 24.4 percent of New Yorkers have already received the doses necessary to consider themselves immunized against the disease after the vaccines were extended to all those over 16 years of age and 1.5 million inoculations were administered in the last week.

New York is making progress in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic by expanding vaccine eligibility and opening vaccination sites for the communities hardest hit by the virus in the state,” said Cuomo, who compared the situation to one ” race “against infections.

More than half of those hospitalized in the state correspond to New York City, which has a higher positivity rate of 3.58 percent and is redoubling vaccination efforts, among other ways, offering it in mobile units in neighborhoods with black and Latin American populations.

State authorities have launched a “covid passport” for facilitate the return to normality in large venues such as stadiums and concert halls, and in the Big Apple, officials are expected to return to their offices in May, prompting companies to do the same.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 21 percent of the country’s population has completed their vaccination, almost 70.7 million people, while the Joe Biden government accelerates the campaign and warns of a new wave of infections as restrictions are lifted.

With the United States leading the number of cumulative cases worldwide – 31 million according to the Johns Hopkins University tally -, New York has gone from being the most affected state in all indicators to being the fourth for infections, 1.95 million, and the second for deaths, 51 thousand.

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