Daily death total in N.Y. half of peak
Cuomo, de Blasio eye steps toward restarting
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the 367 deaths from the coronavirus that he reported Sunday were “horrific,” but the number was less than half the nearly 800 deaths that occurred in a single day during the pandemic’s peak in New York.
It is the first time this month that the statewide daily death toll has been below 400.
He also reported that the number of hospitalizations, which still topped 1,000, and the number of individuals put on a ventilator had dropped too.
The deaths recorded Saturday and reported Sunday included 349 patients who died in hospitals and 18 individuals who died in nursing homes, the governor said.
Construction and manufacturing jobs that represent low risks for workers will be among the first to resume once New York state starts reopening after the coronavirus shutdown, Cuomo said Sunday.
Retail jobs and workers in the hospitality and hotel industry might be among the last to return, he said.
He said determinations of when reopening starts will follow federal guidance that says reopening should not begin until the state and regional hospitalization rate has declined for two weeks.
Also Sunday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he hopes to have a road map by June 1 on how to rebuild the city.
The mayor said at a news conference that city leaders he has invited to help plan the city’s recovery should give him the road map. He said a full rebuild will take about 20 months.
In other developments:
The governor of New Jersey said he thinks the state is “several weeks away” from taking the first steps to reopen following the coronavirus outbreak.
Gov. Phil Murphy said on NBC’S “Meet the Press” on Sunday that fatalities associated with the virus “continue to be significant each and every day.”
Florida Gov. Ron Desantis asserted on Sunday that parts of the state are now “on the other side” of the coronavirus outbreak and said he soon would announce whether he would lift edicts that shuttered much of the state’s economy.
In a news briefing at an Orlando medical center, the governor mentioned Central Florida as one of the regions that could reopen first.