New York calls for action after detecting more cases of the new variant of VOCID-19

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New York – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday again called on the federal administration for measures to curb the new strain of COVID-19 discovered in the UK after detecting three new cases in the state.

Five days after finding a first infected with this variant of virus, New York has announced today three more, two of them linked to this first case and another unrelated.

“There’s no mystery about how he got here. He got on a plane and flew here from Europe, just like the original stump,” Cuomo noted. at a press conference, in which he again charged against the federal government for not forcing all international travelers to test.

“Their lack of action means that others need to be much more vigilant in our work to curb expansion, as well as do everything we can to speed up the distribution of vaccines,” the Democratic politician added.

Dozens of cases of the new variant of coronavirus, which is apparently more easily transmitted, have already been detected around the United States, although it does not appear to trigger more severe symptoms.

According to early studies, the vaccines developed so far should also be effective against this strain.

Since the variant was discovered in the United Kingdom, New York authorities have called on Washington for stricter measures to control its progress in the United States and, in the absence of responses, have taken some action on its own.

Thus, Cuomo agreed with the airlines that connect British airports with those of New York that test passengers and has tightened surveillance on the quarantines to be subjected to those arriving in the state, especially since of the United Kingdom.

The governor also announced that on the previous day a new record of COVID-19 tests was achieved in the state, with a total of more than 258,000, for a population of just under 20 million people. .

Of these, 6.57% were positive, while 188 deaths were recorded.

According to the state count, a total of 31,519 people have died from coronavirus in New York, of the nearly 370,000 who have lost their lives in the United States.

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