China News Service, January 2nd. According to a report by the US Chinese website, the number of confirmed cases of the new crown in New York State reached an unimaginable level on the 1st. The governor’s daily report showed that the number of confirmed cases in a single day reached 85,476. .

At 0:00 on January 1, 2022 local time, people at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, New York, USA ushered in the New Year amidst blooming fireworks and flying pieces of paper.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan

　　According to reports, since New York State broke the previous epidemic record last month, the trend of exponential growth has shown no signs of slowing down.

The number of self-testing at home has not been counted, so the actual total number of positive cases cannot be known.

　　At the same time, the number of hospitalizations continued to climb.

In the second week of December 2021, New York State Governor Huo Chu also assured New Yorkers that "it is not March 2020, or even January 2021". She said that the number of hospitalizations was much lower than that of January, which was close to 9,300. People's peak.

　　Since then, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state has more than doubled, and the total number is now 8,451. The number of new hospitalizations in New York State hospitals on the 1st is 532.

Currently, for every 100,000 New Yorkers, 30 unvaccinated people are hospitalized, compared with 2.1 among those who have been vaccinated.

　　Huo Chu said that about half of the patients are in New York City, and 50 ambulance convoys from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin to arrive in New York early next month.

Thirty federal ambulance convoys have been dispatched to other parts of the state.

　　State Emergency Services Commissioner Jackie Bray said that a 35-member federal medical assistance team is expected to arrive at Upper State University Hospital in Syracuse next week, and a team of about 20 people will arrive in Erie County, Buffalo. Medical center.

　　At the same time, Huo Chu is sending more members of the New York National Guard to help health care institutions complete non-medical tasks.

Statewide, they must not only deal with the increase in cases, but also the work pressure faced by employees due to illness or isolation.

About a month ago, Huo Chu began to deploy members of the National Guard to provide assistance in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

　　Huo Chu also announced that students from the State University of New York and the City University of New York must be vaccinated during the spring semester and must be vaccinated with a booster shot and provide proof of negative results before returning to campus at the end of the holiday.

　　She said that the recent surge in the epidemic was mainly driven by the Omi Keron variant, and "we have been hit very badly."