(Fighting new crown pneumonia) The epidemic continues to worsen, New York City restaurants stop indoor dining again on the 14th

  China News Agency, New York, December 11th. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on the 11th that in view of the continuous increase in the number of new coronary pneumonia cases hospitalized in New York City, all restaurants in the city will stop indoor dining, outdoor dining and takeaway from December 14 As usual.

  Como announced the decision at a press conference in Albany that day.

For restaurants in other regions, the epidemic prevention department will start monitoring this weekend and decide whether to reduce the upper limit of dinning people or stop completely based on the data in the next few days.

New York Mayor Bai Sihao said at a press conference that day that he would 100% support the state government's decision to stop dine-in.

  New York City restaurants resumed their dine-in service at the end of September due to restrictions on the number of people indoors, but stopped again only two months later. The New York Times said that this is undoubtedly another major blow to the restaurant industry in New York City.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in New York in March, the number of employees in the catering industry in New York City has decreased by about 100,000, most of whom are low-income earners.

  According to data from the New York City government website, as of December 9, the 7-day average of the city's new coronavirus test positive rate was 5.35%.

From December 3rd to 9th, the total number of confirmed cases was nearly 15,600, the total number of hospitalizations was 1,111, and the total number of confirmed deaths was 118.

The above indicators show an upward trend compared with the average of the past 4 weeks.

  Cuomo said the positive rate of virus testing in New York State on the 10th was 4.98%, with 5,321 hospitalizations, 1,007 intensive care patients, and 87 deaths.

He once again emphasized the issue of hospital capacity, saying that the state government has required hospitals to increase the number of beds and reduce unnecessary operations to ensure that the bed utilization rate is controlled below 85%.

  In terms of vaccines, Cuomo said that as long as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the use of the vaccine, New York State will quickly follow up and approve the vaccine and distribute the vaccine on hand as soon as possible.

He said that in addition to 170,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, New York State will receive 346,000 doses of Modena vaccine, which is expected to arrive within one week from December 21.

  According to the vaccine distribution plan developed by the State of New York, New York City received 72,000 doses of the first vaccine.

De Blasio said that a vaccine command center has been established in New York City, which began operation on the 14th to ensure that medical staff, nursing home residents and staff are vaccinated as soon as possible.

  In the face of the rapidly deteriorating new crown pneumonia epidemic in the United States, vaccines are regarded by all walks of life as an important response.

But Cuomo still reminds people not to be blindly optimistic, because according to experts, when the vaccination rate reaches 75%-85%, social and economic activities may return to normal levels.

Even if New York State can quickly find 300,000 people who are willing to vaccinate and vaccinate them, it only accounts for about 1.5% of the state's population.

  According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there are currently nearly 15.668 million patients diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia in the United States, nearly 293,000 have died, and approximately 5.985 million have recovered.

According to a survey released by Gallup on the 8th of this month, about 63% of Americans expressed their willingness to receive the new crown vaccine.

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