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BREAKING NEWS: Trump to quarantine New York, Connecticut, New Jersey
President Trump is considering quarantining New York, Connecticut and New Jersey in desperate efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump is considering quarantining New York, Connecticut and New Jersey amid pandemic
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump is considering quarantining New York, Connecticut and New Jersey amid pandemic
- President Trump is considering quarantining New York, Connecticut and New Jersey to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic
- Deaths in New York state reached 728 Saturday
- New York Gov Cuomo hit back at the plans saying 'I don't like the sound of it' and that he doesn't think it is 'enforceable'
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The move will restrict travel to and from the three states, which are some of the hardest-hit by the outbreak.
'We'd like to see New York quarantined because it's a hotspot — New York, New Jersey, maybe one or two other places, certain parts of Connecticut quarantined. I'm thinking about that right now,' he said Saturday.
'We might not have to do it but there's a possibility that sometime today we'll do a quarantine — short term two weeks for New York, probably New Jersey and parts o Connecticut.'
President Trump is considering quarantining the whole of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey in desperate efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic
New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo hit back at the president's plans in a press conference Saturday.
'I don't know what it means … I don't know how it will be enforceable. I don't like the sound of it,' Cuomo said.
The move will do little to waylay mounting fears that stricter shutdowns on public life could spark civil unrest across the US.
The president made the comments as he touched down in Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews around noon Saturday and spoke to reporters.
US President Donald Trump boarding Marine One as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on Saturday, as he said a short-term quarantine could be enforced in the three states
'We're looking at it,' he said about the possible quarantine of the three states.
'We're looking at it and will be making a decision. A lot of the states that are infected - they've asked me if I'd look at it so we're going to look at it. Maybe for a short period of time.'
'It would be for a short time' for parts of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, he said.
However when asked if he would shut down the New York City subway he said: 'No we wouldn't do that.'
The president also dismissed the idea that he would deploy the National Guard to enforce quarantine rules.
'We're not going to need that,' he said.
He said he would talk to New York state Governor Cuomo about the measures later today.
Trump also took the opportunity to praise the work Congress had done to pass the $2 trillion emergency bailout package, which he signed into law Friday.
'We have great oversight - a lot of oversight. We have a lot of people watching. It's a wonderful thing we've done for the workers and for the citizens,' he said.
'A lot of people are going to work. It will bring back the economy I think very fast.'
His comments on a possible quarantine seemed to backtrack on his previous claims that he wants to get the economy and normal life back up and running as soon as possible.
Trump said this week that he wanted the US 'opened up and raring to go' by April 12 for Easter.
The number of deaths in New York state reached 728 Saturday, as the US's epicenter for coronavirus struggles to bring the pandemic under control.
The death toll in the city rose to 450 as of early Saturday morning as its healthcare system is threatened with imminent collapse.
On both Thursday and Friday, another 85 people died of the virus, or an average of one New Yorker every 17 minutes. There are 26,697 confirmed NYC cases as the national total soars over 100,000.
Queens is emerging as the epicenter of the epicenter in New York City with 8,214 cases, a one-day increase of 32 percent.
In just the past week, one funeral home in Queens has held service for close to a dozen people who have died from the virus, and is expecting to do more.
Manhattan patients are testing positive at a significantly lower rate than the outer boroughs with no neighborhood reporting over 40 percent of patients confirmed positive.
New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo hit back at the president's plans in a press conference Saturday: 'I don't know what it means … I don't know how it will be enforceable. I don't like the sound of it'
The city's healthcare system is buckling under the strain of the rise in cases.
Medical emergency calls were up 40 percent to about 6,500 a day, shattering historical records and leading to up to 170 callers being put on hold at a time, according to EMS union officials.
Inside the city's hospitals, healthcare workers faced unspeakable scenes of suffering and death.
'Hell. Biblical. I kid you not. People come in, they get intubated, they die, the cycle repeats,' said Dr Steve Kassapidis of Mount Sinai Queens, in an interview with Sky News. '9/11 was nothing compared to this, we were open waiting for patients to come who never came. Now they just keep coming.'
'The hospitals look like a war zone,' Dr Emad Youssef of Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn told CBS News. 'People lining up out of the hallway, through the EMS bay, through the ambulance bay, with masks on themselves, with oxygen on their nose.'
The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is headed for New York to be used as a makeshift hospital amid the pandemic
A medical worker at the coronavirus testing tent set up outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York on Saturday: The number of deaths in New York state reached 728 Saturday, as the US's epicenter for coronavirus struggles to bring the pandemic under control
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The death toll in New York City rose to 450 as of early Saturday morning as its healthcare system is threatened with imminent collapse
Neighboring state New Jersey has also been grappling to bring the outbreak under control, with 8,825 confirmed cases and 108 confirmed deaths.
Last week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order mandating that all non-essential retail businesses close their stores and almost all state residents stay home to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The order affects some 9 million residents in the state and exempts those who work in essential services such as healthcare and the food industry, the governor said at a news conference.
It banned all gatherings including weddings and parties, Murphy said.
