“We are today signing an executive order allowing people to get their marriage licenses remotely and also allowing clerks to perform ceremonies over video, “Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said at a news conference today.
) “There’s now no excuse when the question comes up for marriage. No excuse. You can do it by Zoom–– it’s yes or no,” Cuomo joked.
(New York Gov). . Andrew Cuomo said the state knows how to conduct testing and contact tracing, but the problem is how to do it on a widespread scale to ensure reopening the economy would not cause a spike in coronavirus infections.
“The more you test, the more information, the more you can reopen society,” Cuomo said at a press conference today. “The trick with testing is not that we don’t know how to do it, we’ve done it better in this state than almost any other state, almost any other country. It’s bringing this up to scale.”
The testing supply chain: Cuomo explained that tests are made by private laboratory equipment manufacturers who then sell their tests to smaller labs. These smaller labs sell to hospitals and the public. In order for these tests to be performed, local labs must have necessary testing chemicals known as “reagents.” “They bought the machine. They have the machine. They have the test. But they need the reagents to do a higher volume of tests, “Cuomo said.
Cuomo said the problem with getting more reagents hinges on them not being made in the US. Additionally, because these manufactures are regulated by the federal government, it controls where the reagents are distributed.
“We need help on that supply chain, especially when it becomes international. And we need coordination and basic partnership, “Cuomo said.
(New York called the top) producing labs in the state and say “we could be doing more if they would give us the reagents , that’s the log jam that we are in, “Cuomo said.
The local labs have to go back to that manufacturer to run their tests, and “there’s very little uniformity among the tests so your trying to coordinate this whole private sector system,” he said.
The federal government sent 1.5 million cloth tasks to New York state yesterday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today at a news conference.
“I’m going to thank them for that. These are cloth masks that we can distribute to people to help implement our policy where, if you are in public, you have to wear a mask. It’s not a surgical mask. It’s a cloth mask, “Cuomo said. “We’re asking people to wear masks and this is going to be very helpful because we’re going to have additional masks to distribute to the public.”
Some context: Cuomo signed an (executive order that requires) Everyone in the state to wear a mask or a mouth / nose covering in public when not social distancing, he said Wednesday.
There will be a three-day notice period before the order is enforced, allowing New Yorkers to secure masks or coverings. He said he is considering a civil penalty for those who break the rule.
ICU admissions and intubation numbers down in New York, Cuomo added.
The campaign, “ Keep Them Covered, ”compliments New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order requiring all New Yorkers to wear a face covering while riding public transportation.
The campaign includes digital signage across more than 7, 13 digital screens –– including 4, 09 in the NYC subway system, 2, 713 on busses and about on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. There are also an additional 7, (printed signs and audio announcements across the system.
“Wearing the face covering is critical to protecting public health and could ultimately save lives,” said Patrick Warren, MTA chief safety officer .
Joe Raedle / Getty Images Two Trump properties in Florida have furloughed a total of workers due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to documents the Trump Organization filed with the Florida Department of Labor and local officials.
There are employees furloughed at Trump National Doral Miami and (employees were furloughed at the Mar-A-Lago club.)
The organization said the furloughs are of non-essential employees at both properties.
“We anticipate that this cessation of nonessential operations of the Club and these furloughs will be temporary. Based on the fluid and rapidly evolving nature of this situation, however, at this time we are unable to provide a specific date at which we will be able to recommence regular Club operations and return affected employees to work, ”the organization’s head of human resources said in a letter regarding Doral.
for the Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment regarding the furloughs.
the real estate publication the Real Deal first reported the furloughs.
New York City residents can now report other people for not social distancing.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new service that encourages New Yorkers to take a photo of a crowded place, or a group of people who are not following social distancing guidelines, and text it to a phone number that alerts authorities.
“We still know there’s some people that need to get the message and that means sometimes making sure the enforcement is there to educate people and make clear we’ve got to have social distancing, “de Blasio said in a tweet today. “When you see a crowd, when you see a line that’s distanced, when you see a supermarket that too crowded, anything, you can report it right away so we can get help there to fix the problem.”
De Blasio said that once New Yorkers send the photo, “we will make sure enforcement comes right away. ”
He said the new reporting system is about saving lives and making sure social distancing is continuing in the city.
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The statement added: “In the next few days, Ferrari plans to manufacture several hundred items of equipment that are already being distributed by some of the companies involved, with the coordination of the Italian Civil Protection Agency. ” According to Ferrari, the newly developed equipment will be distributed to various Italian hospitals, including those in Bergamo, Genoa, Modena and Sassuolo, as well as to health workers in the town of Medicina, near Bologna.
In a statement shared on his official Facebook page, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said the country is proud of Ferrari’s efforts to support healthcare workers.
“Ferrari, one of our Italian excellences, has deployed its skills to face coronavirus and safeguard the lives of Italians … knowing that the company is helping to support the country restart makes us proud, ”Di Maio said. (Read More)
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