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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 15, 2020
New York City coronavirus deaths suspected to be more than 10,000
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NEW YORK: The number of coronavirus-linked deaths in New York City soared past 10,000 on Tuesday (Apr 14) after officials said almost 4,000 people who never tested positive were presumed to have died from COVID-19. The city’s health department announced that 3,778 people had probably succumbed to the illness – on top of the 6,589 confirmed
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 15, 2020
New York hospitalisations fall for first time in coronavirus pandemic
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NEW YORK: The total number of people hospitalised in New York fell for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, a further sign the state at the epicenter may be at the peak of its crisis, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday (Apr 14). He told a daily briefing that President Donald
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 14, 2020
New York governor says ‘worst is over’ as virus toll tops 10,000
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NEW YORK: New York’s governor declared on Monday that the “worst is over” for its coronavirus outbreak providing the state moves sensibly, despite reporting its death toll had passed 10,000. Andrew Cuomo said lower average hospitalisation rates and intubations suggested a “plateauing” of the epidemic and that he was working on a plan to gradually reopen
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
‘This is very real’: From their window, New York couple sees refrigerated trucks remove bodies
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NEW YORK: A New York couple has seen the cityscape outside their Brooklyn apartment change dramatically in recent weeks, as refrigerated trucks line up in the lot below to receive the remains of COVID-19 victims as they exit the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. Alix Monteleone, a 28-year-old account supervisor, who lives in a trendy part
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
New York hospital sends some ‘borderline’ COVID-19 patients home with oxygen monitors
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NEW YORK: Some coronavirus patients who would have been admitted into the emergency department at a New York hospital are being sent home with an oxygen-monitoring device as the city’s medical system struggles to reserve resources for only the sickest people. The new program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is an examlifestyleple of how doctors are adapting
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
New York sees COVID-19 slowing despite record daily death toll
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NEW YORK: New York state, the US epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, is seeing some levelling out in the number of hospital patients, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday (Apr 7), a hopeful sign even as deaths there and in neighbouring New Jersey hit single-day highs. While the United States experienced its deadliest single day since the
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
British PM in intensive care as UK, New York see record deaths
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled the coronavirus in intensive care on Tuesday (Apr 7) as his country and New York state recorded their highest number of deaths to date in the global pandemic. The shocking hospitalisation of a major world leader has underscored the global reach of COVID-19, which has put more than
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 7, 2020
As morgues overflow, New York struggles with COVID-19 dead
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NEW YORK: Refrigerator trucks parked outside hospital doors, overwhelmed undertakers, and talk about temporary burials in parks: America’s coronavirus epicenter of New York is grappling with how to deal with the dead. As the Big Apple’s death toll from COVID-19 soared to 3,485 on Monday (Mar 7), images of bodies covered in sheets being transported on
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 4, 2020
New York state COVID-19 toll spikes by record 630 deaths in single day: Governor
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NEW YORK: New York state’s death toll rose to 3,565 Saturday (Apr 4), the Governor Andrew Cuomo said, up from 2,935 the previous day, in the largest 24-hour jump recorded there. The state has now recorded 113,704 positive cases – 63,306 in New York City – just 6,000 short of hard-hit Italy’s total. Advertisement Advertisement New York
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 3, 2020
Trump negative for coronavirus again, orders military to New York
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WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said he underwent a second coronavirus test on Thursday (Apr 2), using a rapid diagnostic that produced a result in less than 15 minutes, and it determined that he has not been infected. “I think I took it really out of curiosity to see how quickly it worked,” said Trump,
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 31, 2020
New York hospital doctor prepares for the worst
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NEW YORK: With the rapid rise of hospitalizations and a health system nearly at capacity, New York doctor Shamit Patel is preparing for the worst over the next few days, all while hoping he won’t have to start choosing which coronavirus patients to treat. Just 10 days ago, only half of the 46-year-old internist’s patients at
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 31, 2020
Demand explodes for New York food banks
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NEW YORK: New York food banks have become inundated with newcomers deprived of income since the near-total halt of business in the United States’ economic capital. Sacks of oranges, sweet potatoes and onions are spread over three tables at an open-air market in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in the north of Manhattan. Sterilised milk and
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 31, 2020
New York cheers arrival of hospital ship as coronavirus cases soar
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NEW YORK: People cheered the US Navy hospital ship Comfort as it sailed into New York on Monday (Mar 30), a beacon of the national effort to stanch the coronavirus outbreak at its US epicentre as the number of cases soared. Painted a gleaming white and adorned with giant red crosses, the 1,000-bed converted oil tanker sailed past
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 29, 2020
Trump weighs ‘quarantine’ of New York, nearby states over coronavirus
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday (Mar 28) he is weighing placing a two-week quarantine on New York and nearby states, the US epicentre of coronavirus infections, to slow the spread of the disease to other parts of the country. The harshest measure yet by the US government in the face of the coronavirus
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