New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said there was no reason to halt mass transit amid an uptick in coronavirus cases.
“Look, what we do here is, we calibrate to the facts as we know them at the time. So, as the facts change, you change your strategy,” Cuomo said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“But, at this time, there's no reason to close down mass transit,” he added. “We haven’t had big numbers in New York, it’s actually in Westchester … where you have a cluster of cases.”
His comments come one day after Amtrak announced it was canceling its high-speed Acela nonstop service between Washington, D.C., and New York through late May.
“As we are experiencing some reduced demand for our service, we are making temporary adjustments to our schedule, such as removing train cars or cancelling trains when there is a convenient alternative with a similar schedule that will have minimal impact to customers,” Amtrak said in a statement.
Cuomo declared a state of emergency on Saturday and called for more testing as numbers spiked in New York. Over 4.3 million people ride the subway system in New York City every day.
There are more than 400 confirmed cases in the United States, with 105 in New York State and 12 in New York City.
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