Firefighters applauded health care workers and sounded sirens from their trucks in a show of support in the battle against the coronavirus outbreak in New York City. This will be the 'peak week' for parts of U.S., an HHS official warned.
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Staff stand at a nurse station inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center as they prepare for coronavirus disease patients in New Orleans, April 5, 2020. Tune into ABC at 1 p.m. ET and ABC News Live at 4 p.m. ET every weekday for special coverage of the novel coronavirus with the full ABC News team, including the latest news, context and analysis.In New York -- the state hit hardest by the pandemic -- the death toll has reached 4,758, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, though he said the rate of death has been"effectively flat for two days."
While New York may have reached the apex of coronavirus infections, the governor added, what happens next"still depends on what we do."If the state is plateauing, it is because social distancing is working so that must continue, said Cuomo. Healthcare workers wheels body of deceased person into makeshift morgue outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Brooklyn, New York, April 6, 2020.Cuomo lectured those who congregated in New York City's squares and parks this weekend and said he's increasing the maximum fine to $1000 for violating the social distancing protocol.
"The growth rate of the pandemic is decreasing in almost all regions," Maria Jose Sierra, with the Spanish Ministry of Health's emergency committee, said in a virtual press briefing Monday.People play instruments as others dance on their balconies in support of the medical staff that are working on the frontlines of the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Barcelona, Spain, on April 5, 2020.
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