The illness has claimed more than 2,500 lives in the country and 776 of those deaths have been in New York, America's financial capital and most populous city.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks with the USNS Comfort docked at Pier 90 in the background on March 30, 2020 in New York. Picture: Bryan R. Smith / AFP
Its arrival came after President Donald Trump abandoned his Easter weekend target for life returning to normal in the United States and extended social distancing guidelines until the end of April. “This virus has been ahead of us from day one,” Governor Andrew Cuomo told MSNBC on Monday, saying projections suggest the pandemic could reach its crest between two and four weeks.
The Big Apple is scheduled to open a temporary emergency hospital in the Javits convention center with 2,900 beds on Monday. De Blasio said late on Sunday the city has enough medical equipment to last a week but needed “several hundred more ventilators very quickly.”
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