In hard-hit New York City, you run the risk of running out of respirators next week, says governor.
governor of New York will take respirators and protective equipment from private players who do not use them.
It says the governor, Andrew Cuomo, according to news agency AP.
On the basis of its position will Cuomo to require, to the excess medical equipment from the private hospitals and companies can be taken in order to remedy the general lack of equipment in the hard-hit city, where coronakrisen raging.
– If they want to sue me for borrowing their redundant life support systems to save lives, so let them sue me, ” he says.
According to the AP, there is talk about one of the most “aggressive” action to date in the UNITED states to meet mangelsituationen.
Cuomo explains that respiratorejerne will get the equipment back, or be compensated in other ways.
IN the UNITED states is the worst in the megapolis of New York City, where over half of the country’s approximately 100,000 registered smittetilfælde available. It writes the news agency dpa.
the Mayor of New York city, Bill de Blasio, says that the city has a need for over 15,000 additional respirators and 45,000 more employees in the health sector in order to cope with the epidemic through april and may.
Cuomo has stated that in the metropolis risk to run out of respirators next week. But with an executive order he will, according to the AP, therefore make sure that hundreds of new respirators of the world are redistributed from private actors to the hospitals.
the State of New York assessed the Friday local time, its largest increase in coronarelaterede deaths. Here the death toll rose by 562 to 2935. Nearly 15,000 are hospitalized. It writes the AP.
According to the Reuters call mayor Bill de Blasio the situation of an “extraordinary race against time”.
He reiterates that the federal government should help with medical trained personnel from the military.
– We have to do with an enemy that kills thousands of americans, and many people die who need not die, ” says de Blasio on Friday according to Reuters at a news conference.
– You can not say that every state is for itself, that each city must fend for itself. It is not the UNITED states.
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