New York COVID-19 hospitalisations drop to month low: Governor

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REUTERS: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday (Apr 28) that new hospitalisations for COVID-19 dropped to a one-month low and laid out a ...

The three-day rolling average of the number of people newly hospitalised for COVID-19 fell to 953 in New York on Monday, Cuomo said, adding that intubations and total hospitalisations also fell.

Cuomo said regions wanting to reopen would have to have hospital bed utilisation below 70 per cent of capacity and a transmission rate below 1.1 - that is, every infected person would be transmitting the virus to 1.1 others on average. "We want to reopen but we want to do it without infecting more people or overwhelming the hospital system," Cuomo said.

"The whole thing with keeping that infection rate down is find a person early who is infected, let them know it and then trace and then isolate," Cuomo said.

 

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