People leaving the New York City metropolitan are being urged to self-quarantine for 14 days, White House officials said Tuesday as the rate of coronavirus infections in the state continue to spike.
“We remain deeply concerned about New York City,” she said, adding that 31 percent of the people “succumbing” to coronavirus have been in the New York metro area — significantly higher than other regions of the county,” Dr. Deborah Birx said during a press briefing at the White House.
“About 56 percent of all the cases in the United States are coming out of that metro area and 60 percent of all the new cases are coming out of the metro New York area and 31 percent of the people succumbing to this disease.
“To everyone who has left New York over the last few days, because of the rate of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left New York,” she added.
More than 60 percent of all new coronavirus cases in the U.S. are coming from the New York metro area.
Brix said a cluster of new cases across Long Island suggests New Yorkers leaving the city for their vacation homes were spreading the virus.
“That suggests people have left the city, so this will be very critical that those individuals do self-quarantine in their homes over these next 14 days to make sure they don’t pass the virus,” Birx said.
The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 409,000 people worldwide and killed more than 18,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the U.S., 50,000 have been infected and more than 600 have died.
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