Grim daily reality in coronavirus epicentre New York

WASHINGTON - From her apartment in Brooklyn, Abigail Chan, a Singaporean who has lived in New York City for 21 years, has to place her conference calls - she is in the private equity business - on mute until sounds from the street fade.

FAR FROM OVER The state of New York now has more cases than any other single country outside the United States - as of Saturday , 174,489 cases according to data from Johns Hopkins University."We are far from over in fighting this," the city's Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Saturday, who wants city schools to remain closed for the rest of the academic year till September.

RAFFLES GIRLS SCHOOL FRIENDS New Yorkers have been living for weeks now with hospital tents in Central Park. At major hospitals, patients wait for hours to be admitted, lined up on gurneys around the block. Cable television channels interview exhausted doctors and sobbing nurses. Refrigerated trucks double as morgues. Mass graves are being prepared on Hart Island, for the bodies of the unclaimed.

"We see people are out there with animals, with kids," she told The Straits Times."But I just try to give them a wide berth even it means walking on the road. And I do go out with a DIY mask… made out of a handkerchief." "I've seen how my uncle lost his life at 37, and you would think that he would know better because he's a doctor, he's a surgeon - but no. So it can hit any of us and we might not survive it when we get it. So these are all very real things, and I think self-knowledge will help us to make calm, sensible decisions to stay alive," she said.

Another Singaporean in Brooklyn, 31-year-old actress Jody Doo, spends her time at home in creative work, including reading books on Instagram Live, which helps others stuck at home. Her latest read: Roald Dahl's autobiography, Boy.

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