NYC now has nearly 15,000 reported cases of COVID-19, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference today, accounting for one-third of all cases in the country, a crisis he said made it unthinkable that life would resume normally by April
New York City now has nearly 15,000 reported cases of COVID-19, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a Tuesday press conference, accounting for one-third of all cases in the country, a crisis he said made it unthinkable that life would resume normally by April.De Blasio pushed back against President Donald Trump’s assertion that life will be back to normal by Easter; “People deserve the honest truth,” he said.
New York City will get about 2,000 ventilators from the federal government; de Blasio said the city needs 15,000. Queens has more than 4,000 cases, the most of any borough; Staten Island had the least at less than 1,000., de Blasio said the city would release approximately 300 inmates who were convicted of misdemeanors or non-violent felonies with less than a year on their sentences.As New York City becomes the coronavirus epicenter for the country, Cuomo and de Blasio have called on the federal government for help.
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