China News Service, May 18 (Xinhua) According to a comprehensive report, on the 17th local time, New York City raised the alert level of the new crown epidemic to "high", and the city's health officials strongly urged the public to wear masks indoors and in public places.
On April 11, local time, New York City citizens were tested for the new coronavirus at a testing station.
According to the US Chinese website, the number of new crown infections in New York City has continued to rise for two months.
The city has averaged more than 3,500 new cases a day in recent days.
But the true number of infections may be higher because many people are being tested at home and not reporting it.
In the original Omikron outbreak, roughly 30 percent of people in New York City contracted the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leaving hospitals at high capacity.
US media reported that the New York City Department of Health issued a guideline urging all citizens to wear highly protective masks, such as KN95, KF94 and N95 masks, both indoors and in public.
These include supermarkets, building lobbies, offices, shops, and other public places where human interaction may occur, such as restrooms, corridors, elevators, and conference rooms.
However, New York Mayor Eric Adams has no plans to immediately reinstate the indoor mask order, saying, "We're not at the point where masks are mandatory."
The latest statistics on the new crown epidemic released by Johns Hopkins University on the 17th show that as of 12:20 EST on the 17th (0:20 on the 18th Beijing time), the cumulative number of deaths from the new crown in the United States has exceeded 1 million. , the cumulative number of deaths in New York State exceeded 68,000.