( Reuters) – New York Guv Andrew Cuomo stated on Saturday that a current drop in hospitalizations and other improving metrics showed the state might be past the peak of its coronavirus crisis and on a course towards stabilizing its battered health care system.
FILE IMAGE: SUBMIT PHOTO: New york city guv Andrew Cuomo speaks in the Manhattan district of New York City, New York, U.S., March 30,2020 REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
Cuomo’s very carefully upbeat report at a day-to-day rundown came as the day-to-day death toll across the state, the center of the pandemic in the United States, dropped to 540 on April 17, down from 630 a day previously and the most affordable in more than two weeks.
The guv said total hospitalizations of patients being dealt with for COVID-19, the respiratory disease brought on by the coronavirus, pertained to 16,9