The governor told businesses to 'be creative' in developing plans to reopen with continued mitigation practices in place.
Admissions reached 18,825—the highest total reported on any single day throughout the pandemic—two weeks ago and has been steadily declining since then. However, despite New York's increasing hospital discharges, the state has continued to confirm significant numbers of new patient admissions. During Saturday's press briefing, Cuomo said an average of 1,100 new hospitalizations were reported over the previous 72 hours.
on Saturday permitting thousands of New York pharmacists to conduct diagnostic tests for COVID-19. He also announced expanded criteria for testing, which was previously limited to individuals showing symptoms that indicated possible infection from the coronavirus. On Saturday, Cuomo said the state was conducting about 20,000 tests per day and hoped to double its capacity with federal assistance. The governor has emphasized that New York cannot proceed to reopen its economy without broadened testing capabilities and recently met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House to make a case for additional resources.
"We restart when we have evidence. Anybody, any state, any city that doesn't pay attention to those factual health care indicators that evidence is endangering themselves and their people and the whole idea of having a restart to have an economy again, recover, it could all backfire because the disease reasserts," said the mayor.
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