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All the New York Public Schools will be closed from Thursday due to the advance of coronavirus. According to Education Minister Richard Carranza, this will in principle be a “temporary” measure, although there are no reopening figures. Even today, the deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Jarbas Barbosa, had warned of the effect of the second wave in the country on the health system.

Barbosa had warned this Wednesday against the record number of hospitalizations for covid-19 registered in the United States, which would endanger the management of severe cases of the disease.

Until yesterday, according to the Covid Tracking Project platform, which collects public data, there was 76,830 people hospitalized by covid-19, a record number since the declaration of the global pandemic in mid-March.

“The United States continues to see an acceleration of cases, signaling over a million new infections in the last week alone. These increases have also led to a record number of hospitalizations, ”Barbosa said at a press conference.

This situation, he warned, is “particularly worrying, because We know that when our health facilities are overwhelmed, our ability to treat the critically ill is limited“.

Coronavirus in the United States

The United States reached the figure of 11,340,563 confirmed coronavirus cases and 248,429 deaths on Tuesday, according to the independent tally from Johns Hopkins University.

Despite the fact that New York is no longer the state with the highest number of infections, it remains the most affected in terms of dead in the United States, with 34,076. It is followed in number of deaths by Texas with 20,147, California with 18,312, Florida with 17,644 and New Jersey with 16,618. Among the other states with large numbers including Illinois with 11,317, Massachusetts with 10,360, Pennsylvania with 9,346, Georgia with 9,008 and Michigan with 8,511.

As for contagions, Texas has 1,078,583, followed by California with 1,049,320, Florida third with 897,323, Illinois fourth with 597,849 and New York fifth with 568,778.