New York Governor Andrew Cuomo criticised over highest nursing home death toll
NEW YORK: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has won bipartisan praise for rallying supplies for his ravaged hospitals and helping slow the coronavirus, is coming under increasing criticism for not bringing that same level of commitment to a problem that has so far stymied him: nursing homes. In part-lecture, part-cheerleading briefings that have made […]
LGBT rabbi in New York who confronted AIDS crisis now faces COVID-19
NEW YORK: Sharon Kleinbaum was installed in 1992 as rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, considered the largest LGBT synagogue in the nation. At the time, AIDS was killing thousands of gay New Yorkers each year. “The CBST community knows what it takes to live through a plague,” Kleinbaum says in a message […]
COVID-19: New York state records 562 deaths, highest number in single day; total tally at 2,935
NEW YORK: The New York State reported its highest number of 562 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, with a person dying almost every two-and-a-half minutes, as Governor Andrew Cuomo allowed redistribution of ventilators and protective gear to hospitals with greater need. Coronavirus cases in the state, the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, […]
Coronavirus outbreak: US arranges for airlifting citizens stuck in India
NEW YORK: The US government was arranging to airlift American citizens stuck in India because of the lockdown imposed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a State Department official. Ian Brownlee, the official dealing with consular affairs, said on Friday: “We are working directly with both US and foreign carriers to lay […]
Coronavirus cases swamp hospitals in United States epicenter New York
NEW YORK: In New York hospitals, staff are working extra shifts and searching desperately for more bed space as they battle a surging toll of dead and infected at the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, which has so far claimed 385 lives across the state, patients were […]