CORONAVIRUS: New York records 731 new deaths, as Wuhan travel ban ends

The city of New York in the United States of America has recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day jump since the outbreak of the deadly disease.

Andrew Cuomo, the New York Governor, said that the state’s death toll since the beginning of the outbreak is now 5,489, stating further that there’s ‘a lot of pain’, but officials are hopeful as hospitalisations has dropped compared to last week.

“That’s 731 people who we lost. Behind every one of those numbers is an individual. There’s a family, there’s a mother, there’s a father, there’s a sister, there’s a brother. So a lot of pain again today for many New Yorkers,” Cuomo said at a briefing at the state Capitol.

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In a related development, the city of Wuhan in China has started allowing people to leave on Wednesday for the first time since the central Chinese city was sealed off 76 days ago to contain the coronavirus that first emerged there late last year.

Reports say no fewer than 65,000 people left the city within hours of the restrictions being lifted by authorities.

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