BRAND-NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The governor of New York on Wednesday split down even harder on public gatherings in the face of the coronavirus, calling residents who overlooked stay-at-home rules “self-centered” as California’s guv warned his state will lack health center beds by next month.
A healthcare worker strolls outside a recently built field hospital in the East Meadow of Central Park during the break out of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Manhattan district of New york city City, New York, U.S., April 1,2020 REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid
New York City Guv Andrew Cuomo told New york city City cops to more strongly impose rules for social distancing as deaths in the state soared to almost 2,000
” Youths need to get this message, and they still have actually not gotten the message, you still see too many situations with excessive density by young people,” said Cuomo, who stated models showed the outbreak intensifying until the end of April.
Cuomo stated he was closing playgrounds, swing sets, basketball courts and comparable spaces, while open spaces in parks would remain open for now.
He sounded vexed by reports of crowds collecting at a Manhattan pier to watch the arrival of the U.S. Navy medical facility ship, the Comfort.
” How negligent and irresponsible and selfish for individuals not to do it on their own,” Cuomo stated.
All told 4,529 people have actually died throughout the United States from COVID-19 so far, according to a Reuters tally, with more than 205,000 cases reported.
White House medical experts have anticipated that even with stringent observance of stay-at-home orders imposed in 36 states and the District of Columbia, some 100,000 to 240,000 peo