New York City has become the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak in the United States with the Mayor confirming over 4000 cases as the number nationwide surges passed 13500 via SABCNewsOnline
De Blasio has called for the army to be deployed to increase healthcare capacity and beds in the city, while on the west coast in the country’s most populous state California, a statewide stay at home order is now in place as Governor Gavin Newsom explained.
That’s about 25 million people who could get infected in one state alone. As the Federal Government’s drug administration now moves to test new therapies in the absence of a vaccine that is still at least 12 months away. Listen to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr Stephen Hahn. More broadly, the UN Chief Antonio Guterres indicated a global recession “is a near certainty” and that current national responses to the coronavirus pandemic would not address the global scale and complexity of the crisis, particularly in vulnerable regions of the world.
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