New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that schools and colleges across the state will remain closed for the rest of the academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a decision that will impact nearly 4.2 million students.
In an "ambitious" cleaning effort undertaken to control the spread of the deadly coronavirus, the New York City will shut down its 24-hour transit system -- the largest in the US -- from 1 am to 5 am daily to disinfect the subway network, commuter trains and buses.
Countries across the world are trying and testing various drugs and vaccines to beat the deadly coronavirus. In a similar development, hospitals in New York are testing a heartburn drug as a treatment for coronavirus, the Daily Mail has reported.
Four tigers and three lions have tested COVID-19 positive at the Bronx Zoo in New York, authorities announced, weeks after a Malayan tiger at the facility was confirmed positive and six other big cats were said to be exhibiting similar symptoms.
Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in companion animals in the United States, federal officials said Wednesday.
Peter Beard was born into a wealthy family in Manhattan in 1938 and graduated in 1961 from Yale, where he studied with the artist Josef Albers and art historian Vincent Scully.
New York reported less than 500 deaths in a single day from the coronavirus for the first time in nearly three weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday, stressing that continuous drop in hospitalizations suggest that the state is descending from the “plateau” of COVID-19 infections.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said that the state appears to be past the “plateau” on the coronavirus infection curve and is "starting to descend”, as hospitalisations continue to decline and the daily death toll dropped under 550 for the first time in almost two weeks.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday extended the state’s shutdown till May 15 even as the state, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, continued to see a drop in hospitalisations and ICU admissions and recorded the lowest deaths in 10 days.
More than 189,000 cases have been reported in New York state, the hardest-hit state in the US, and the death toll now stands at 9385. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters on Sunday that the past week was a "very, very tough" one in the city's hospitals.
The death toll in New York State from COVID-19 is "stabilizing" but at a horrific rate, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday as he announced that 783 more people died from the novel coronavirus in the state in the last 24 hours.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that the COVID-19 deaths in the state hit a new one-day peak, with 731 people dead in the largest single-day increase in fatalities since the coronavirus crisis engulfed the state, the epicentre of the pandemic in the US.
New York had recorded the highest increase in the number of deaths from COVID19 in a single day between April 2 and 3 when 562 people died of the disease. In the 24 hours since April 4, the death toll grew to 630, “all-time increase” up to a total of 3,565, an increase from 2,935 on Friday morning.
Coronavirus cases in New York State now stand at 113,704, out of the country's total number of 312,146. New Jersey, the second most impacted state in the US, has about 30,000 COVID-19 cases. New York City alone has 63,306 coronavirus patients, up from 57,169 the previous 24 hours, and 2,624 deaths.
In the last 24 hours, the US recorded 1,480 deaths due to coronavirus which is the new world record in global COVID-19 deaths in any other country. So far, 277,161 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the United States while 7,392 people have lost their lives.
Tiffany Pinckney remembers the fear when COVID-19 stole her breath. So when she recovered, the New York City mother became one of the country’s first survivors to donate her blood to help treat other seriously ill patients.
The coronavirus death toll in the United States of America is mounting by the thousands now. On Wednesday, US reported 1,037 COVID-19 deaths as major commercial and financial hubs like New York, New Jersey and California reported piling casualties. The state of New York has seen over 500 deaths in the last 24 hours as the medical system in the city reels from astronomical rise in COVID-19 cases.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that his company is reopening its facility in New York to build ventilators to help combat shortage amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
New York City was hit by the nation’s largest coronavirus jail outbreak to date this week, with at least 38 people testing positive at the notorious Rikers Island complex and nearby facilities — more than half of them incarcerated men, the board that oversees the city’s jail system said Saturday.
News organizations across the United States are lifting paywalls to share coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, a public service many hope will convince more readers to eventually become paying customers. At the same time, the societal shutdown caused by the virus is exacerbating a decline in advertising revenue that has slowly choked many publications, already resulting in layoffs and furloughs. Media outlets big and small, from The New York Times to the Telegraph-Forum in Bucyrus, Ohio, are letting people read their coronavirus coverage without a subscription.
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