Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo
Andrew CuomoBirx traveled over the Thanksgiving weekend after warning Americans to limit celebrations at home from New York breakthroughs, which protect workers from fast food without firing them for no valid reason. The agreement is included to check for smaller stimuli, unemployment benefit assistance Biden and Powell praise progress toward a MORE agreement (D) said on Sunday that flights from the UK should be banned in response to the emergence of a more infectious coronavirus strain in London and the south of England.
In a statement Sunday, the governor criticized the Trump administration for not implementing this closure, saying it did not learn from the initial virus in the spring.
“The United States has several flights coming from the United Kingdom every day and we have done absolutely nothing. For me, that’s reprehensible because that’s what happened in the spring, ”Cuomo said in a statement Sunday.
“How many times in your life do you have to make the same mistake before you learn? The federal government is being very negligent just like spring, and every day they do nothing about this problem, they do something,” he added. it is time for the federal government to take swift action, because today this variant is to get on a plane and land JFK, and only one person is needed. “
Cuomo noted that several European nations have banned flights from the UK in light of the new strain, including Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.
Cuomo’s comments come when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the nation would not be able to relax restrictions on Christmas meetings as originally planned.
“Given the initial evidence we have about this new variant of the virus and the potential risk it poses, it’s with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that we can’t continue with Christmas as planned,” he said on Twitter on Sunday. Johnson.
Meanwhile, the Italian health ministry announced on Sunday that the new strain had been detected in a patient who had recently returned from the UK
Vivek Murthy
Vivek Murthy: A patient in Italy detected with a strain of COVID-19 found in the United Nations bans British flights on the move to block the new strain of virus Sunday shows., President-elect Joe Biden
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“While it appears to be more transmissible, we still have no evidence that it is a more deadly virus for a person who acquires it,” said Murthy, who served as general surgeon in the Obama administration.