{"id":261335,"date":"2021-01-04T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=261335"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T20:47:06","slug":"new-york-state-identifies-case-of-more-infectious-coronavirus-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/new-york-state-identifies-case-of-more-infectious-coronavirus-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State identifies case of more infectious coronavirus strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a>\u00a0Monday said the state has identified its first case of a new, more infectious variant of the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0that was first discovered in the U.K. It was detected in a man in his 60s in Saratoga Springs, about 200 miles north of New York City.<\/p>\n

He was a jeweler who hadn\u2019t traveled out of the country recently and is thought to have become infected through community spread.<\/p>\n

The strain, found so far in California, Florida and Colorado, is more easily transmitted, experts have said, but doesn\u2019t appear to make people sicker. Currently available vaccines are also said to work as effectively on the mutated Covid-19 strain. The problem is it risks multiplying cases and overwhelming hospital systems.<\/p>\n

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Cuomo made the announcement in a short press call this afternoon just as England announced a new national lockdown because of the new variant. His regularly scheduled late-morning briefing didn\u2019t address the variant but focused mostly on the rollout of vaccinations and New York\u2019s infection rate, which has been rising \u2014 possibly, he said, due to the new variant \u2014 but is still well below most of the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

The governor said New York has done 5,000 tests specifically for the\u00a0new strain<\/a>\u00a0and that he believes if other states tested as much they would probably have found it as well. He has warned repeatedly, even before the first U.S. case was revealed, that the new strain would certainly have migrated to the U.S. Last spring, New York became an epicenter of the coronavirus infection that entered the state from Europe as federal officials were focused on China.<\/p>\n

Cuomo said New York\u2019s positivity rate is 8.4% including so-called micro-clusters, which are most pronounced in the Finger Lakes region. He noted that the Bronx has ticked up, as has Staten Island but that Manhattan has a relatively low 3.5% positivity due to a higher percentage of compliance.<\/p>\n

The relatively low stats have been good news so far for New York City production which has been up and running for several months. Movie theaters, however, have not reopened in NYC although they are operating at reduced capacity across the rest of the state.<\/p>\n

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According to the New York governor, most regions of the state are hovering at hospital capacity of around 30%, reiterating that any area that comes \u201cwithin striking distance\u201d of 15% capacity would be declared a red zone and closed down.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Cuomo slammed some hospital systems \u2014 including chastising NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio \u2014 that aren\u2019t vaccinating people, including their own workers, fast enough and said that they\u2019ll be fined and won\u2019t be eligible to receive more vaccines if they don\u2019t speed it up.\u00a0 He called his attitude one of \u201cconstructive impatience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am being very aggressive.. I don\u2019t want the vaccine in a freezer. I want it in someone\u2019s arm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also plans to propose a new law with criminal penalties for health care providers or organizations that allow people to skip in line and get vaccines before they\u2019re eligible. Vaccines \u201cwill be like gold to some people,\u201d he said. \u201cMark my words\u201d \u2014 there will be cases of fraud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo\u00a0Monday said the state has identified its first case of a new, more infectious variant of the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0that was first discovered in the U.K. It was detected in a man in his 60s in Saratoga Springs,…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":261336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,282,11,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-news","category-general","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew York State identifies case of more infectious coronavirus strain - 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