New York. For the first time in nearly two weeks in New York, the number of dead has been less than 550 a day. After this, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, “It seems that the transition has reached the top now.” The number of hospitalized people is also decreasing.
Cuomo said in his regular press briefing, ‘The decline in the number of people hospitalized is a good news. The number of hospitalized people has come down from 18,000 to 16,000. There is no longer any need to keep people in emergency and getting patients admitted to ICU and putting them on a ventilator has also reduced. He said, ‘If you look at the last three days
Health crisis is not over yet
So it seems that we have crossed the peak stage and its graph has started to decline. This is good news. However, we are still not in a good position when it comes to the whole of New York Province. On April 17, 540 people died in New York. This number may not be as high, but this data suggests that the health crisis is not over. 504 people died in hospitals while 36 died in nursing homes. Earlier, on April 15, there were 606 deaths in New York Province, the lowest in 10 days. There are 131,263 cases of corona infection in New York City and so far more than 13 thousand people have died there.
Donald Trump raised questions on China’s statistics
On the other hand, US President Donald Trump has raised doubts about the official number of people who lost their lives in China due to Coronavirus. He called it unrealistic and claimed that the death toll in China is more than the US. Trump’s remarks come after China raised the death toll in the epicenter of the epicenter Wuhan by 1290. Following the revision of the death toll, the number of people who lost their lives to Corona in China has risen to over 4,600. While more than 35 thousand people have died in America.