{"id":321956,"date":"2020-04-08T04:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321956"},"modified":"2020-04-08T04:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:16:29","slug":"new-york-reports-highest-single-day-increase-in-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/new-york-reports-highest-single-day-increase-in-covid-19-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"New York reports highest single-day increase in COVID-19 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320692 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg 819w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-771x420.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/>New York state has reported 731 COVID-19 deaths, the highest number since the beginning of the outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">New York has suffered the highest single-day increase in its death toll from\u00a0COVID-19. bringing the state&#8217;s total death count to 5,489.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor Andrew Cuomo said, \u201cThe death toll of this pandemic is more than a number. Behind the numbers are human beings and families and grief and pain and heartbreak. We can&#8217;t become numb to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur hearts go out to New Jersey. After NY, New Jersey has lost the most people to this vicious virus. Our thoughts are with our brothers and sisters across the Hudson. We are all #NewYorkTough and we are all #JerseyStrong,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe cannot restart life as we knew it without testing. Testing is the essential component. The NYS Dept of Health has developed antibody testing and is working with the FDA to bring it to scale We are working with NJ &amp; CT to ensure we move forward using a regional approach,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSocial distancing is working. We need to vigorously maintain it. Lives depend on it. This is not about any one of us \u2014 it\u2019s about all of us,\u201d Cuomo said<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total number of coronavirus cases in the US has crossed 300,000 with over 12000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York state has reported 731 COVID-19 deaths, the highest number since the beginning of the outbreak. New York has suffered the highest single-day increase in its death toll from\u00a0COVID-19. bringing the state&#8217;s total death count to 5,489. Governor Andrew Cuomo said, \u201cThe death toll of this pandemic is more than a number. Behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12470,5163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321957,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321956\/revisions\/321957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}