New York City officials are advising senior citizens to avoid as much nonessential travel outside of their households as possible, as the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations jump, ABC News reported.
The city’s Health Department issued an advisory Tuesday that elderly and New Yorkers with underlying health conditions should “limit activities outside the home, except leaving home to travel to work or school, or for essential purposes including medical care, grocery shopping or pharmacy necessities.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi said the coronavirus situation is getting worse and cases are expected to increase in the coming weeks. Chokshi said the city’s hospitals have more than 1,100 COVID-19 patients.
“That’s twice as many as were hospitalized less than three weeks ago and the highest number since early June,” he said during the mayor’s Tuesday briefing.
Chokshi said the advisory is specifically directed at New Yorkers over 65 since they have a higher risk of infection.
New York City, which was once the epicenter of the virus, has seen its seven-day average of new cases surge from 622 on Nov. 1 to 1,437 on Nov. 28, according to the city’s Health Department. During that same period, the seven-day average of new hospitalizations increased from 46 to 112, according to the health data.
Just move on and enjoy living!
This may be the first sensible thing he has said.
Keep it this way and just this,
Ask to protect the elderly and keep all businesses open, even with a small spike(if there is and it is not just propaganda).
This is what they are doing in Florida,protecting the elderly in nursing homes and keep everything open.
Do not close the businesses,schools shuls, or even entertainment industry’s.
Just let us protect the elders,and do what we need to do.