New York City

Virus in New York: Ads to inform about troubling syndrome

1:13 am May 14, 2020

New York: New York City is launching a public service campaign to inform parents about a mysterious syndrome that is thought to be linked to COVID-19 and has been diagnosed in more than 80 children in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. Digital ads alerting parents to the symptoms of pediatric multisystem inflammatory […]

When the parent of Southern grocery chain Winn-Dixie said that it wasn't going to require customers to wear masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus, the response was brutal, with some loyal patrons vowing on social media never to shop there again. Days later, Winn-Dixie reversed course and said that it would mandate masks in states or localities that had no requirement.

Wear a mask? Even with 20,000 dead, some New Yorkers don’t

3:08 pm May 13, 2020

New York: Eric Leventhal felt a sneeze coming and panicked. The Brooklynite left his cloth face mask at home for a morning run in a park last week. Walking home, he turned toward an empty street and let the sneeze out, hoping no one would notice. Too bad for him, there’s no hiding without a […]

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Cuomo: Parts of upstate New York ready to reopen by weekend

1:17 am May 12, 2020

New York: Several regions of upstate New York that have shown progress in taming the coronavirus outbreak are ready to gradually restart economic activity by the end of the week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. Cuomo shut down the entire state March 22 as the New York City area emerged as a global pandemic hot […]

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Study: Virus death toll in NYC worse than official tally

12:49 am May 12, 2020

New York: New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the official tally kept by the city and state, according to an analysis released Monday by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Between mid-March and early May, about 24,000 more people died in the city than […]

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NY nursing home reports 98 deaths linked to coronavirus

12:54 pm May 2, 2020

New York: A New York City nursing home on Friday reported the deaths of 98 residents believed to have had the coronavirus a staggering death toll that shocked public officials. It’s absolutely horrifying, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. It’s inestimable loss, and it’s just impossible to imagine so many people lost in one place. It […]