New York Governor Cuomo today called for help when the state recorded 102,863 nCoV infections, an increase of 10,482 cases from the previous day.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York had experienced its most deadly day because of Covid-19 when it recorded 562 more deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths across the state to 2,935.
"New York is in crisis. Please help New York," Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany on April 3, warning that more people will die in the near future due to lack of breathing machines and hospital beds.
Governor Cuomo called for the deployment of resources across the country to New York to help the state deal with the increasingly serious epidemic crisis.
Cuomo said he spoke to Jack Ma, the co-founder of the Alibaba Group and is receiving help from the e-commerce giant in sourcing equipment from China.
The New York governor added that he would pass a law that would allow breathing machines and personal protective equipment to be available at health facilities that do not need to use them to deal with Covid-19.
"If they want to sue me for borrowing their surplus ventilators to save their lives, just do it. I won't let the people die," Cuomo replied at the meeting when asked if his decision was to be taken. be legally challenged or not.
The governor of New York state asked for emergency assistance on March 30, saying about one million health workers are needed to address the current crisis in the state. Many officials also warn the situation in New York may now be the scenario facing other regions in the US soon.
Before Governor Cuomo made the call, nearly 80,000 former New York nurses, doctors and experts volunteered to join the fight against Covid-19. The USNS Comfort hospital ship with a capacity of 1,000 beds was also sent here today to reduce hospital overcrowding.
However, USNS Comfort was ordered to admit nCoV-free patients, leaving the 1,000-bed ship with only three eligible patients and being criticized as a "farce" as New York struggled to deal with rabies. Translate.
Covid-19 has appeared in more than 200 countries and territories, causing over one million people to be infected and nearly 56,000 to die. The United States, the largest epidemic region in the world, currently records more than 257,000 infections, more than 6,500 deaths.