New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s staff and aides hid the actual death toll for about five months. Covid-19 in nursing homes. The “New York Times” writes, noting that Cuomo’s aides have engaged “in a constant effort to prevent state health officials, including Commissioner Howard Zucker, from disclosing the true death toll to the public or sharing it. with the legislators “. The New York daily cites a series of interviews and previously unpublished documents, from which he deduces that the effort of Cuomo’s office to obscure the death toll in the RSA “was far greater than previously known”. A verification of the numbers by a prominent Cuomo collaborator would have been completed months before it became public.
Two letters, drafted by the Department of Health and addressed to state legislators, were never sent.
On March 12, New York State lawmakers opened an investigation into the indictment of Governor Cuomo. After a three-hour emergency meeting, the State Assembly announced its intention to instruct the judicial commission to investigate allegations of misconduct against Cuomo, including allegations of sexual harassment – totaling nine so far. – and the allegations of mismanagement by his administration of the deaths related to the Covid-19 among patients in nursing homes. The decision sets the stage for what could be the first attempted impeachment of the state in more than a century. “The news on the allegations regarding the governor is serious”, said the Democratic President of the State Assembly, Carl Heastie, adding that “the impeachment investigation” will include interviews with witnesses, documents and evaluation of the evidence.
Covid: over 32 million cases and 574,000 deaths in the US
There are 32,227,081 cases in all Covid in the US for a total of 574,297 deaths. It is the latest report from Johns Hopkins University according to which there are 54,311 infections and 948 deaths in the last 24 hours. California is the state most affected by the virus, followed by New York, Texas and Florida.
US will send 20 million AstraZeneca vaccines to India
The United States will return more than 20 million AstraZeneca vaccines already purchased by Washington to India, to counter the pandemic from Covid. This was announced by the White House, adding that the redistribution of doses is part of a plan of over one hundred million dollars, which will see non-governmental organizations, private companies and thousands of Americans across the country mobilized to deliver thousands of ventilators, mobile units. , emergency technical equipment and 15 million N95 faceplates, plus a million rapid tests, of the same type used by the White House. The first humanitarian flights will arrive tomorrow, Thursday, and will continue throughout next week.
The announcement came after the pledge made by President Joe Biden in recent days, when he revealed that he had had a long phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Japan: record of covid infections, the government will introduce “vaccination passports” for international travel
Japan recorded 5,792 new coronavirus infections in the 24 hours of yesterday, April 28, the worst figure in the last three months. This was reported by the Japanese press, according to which the prefectures of Osaka and Fukuoka are confirmed as the main outbreaks of infection in the country, hit by the fourth wave of the pandemic. Osaka prefecture alone confirmed 1,260 new cases yesterday, on the eve of the spring holiday week known as “Golden Week”. The prefecture of Fukuoka reported 440 new infections, the worst figure ever recorded in that prefecture. Yesterday’s national figure is the worst since January 16, despite the third state of emergency since the beginning of 2021 in the most affected prefectures – including the Tokyo metropolitan area – since last week. counterparts of the prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama, the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, reiterated the appeal to citizens to stay at home, not to consume alcohol in public places and not to dine with people who are not part of their family. Governors called on local businesses to reduce attendance work by 70 percent to ease the pressure on public transport.
The government of Japan will introduce “vaccination passports” to facilitate international travel for people who have been given the Covid-19 vaccine. This was reported by government sources quoted yesterday by the “Kyodo” news agency. The “vaccine passport” will probably take the form of a smartphone application, containing a QR code to be scanned at airports before boarding a flight, and upon entering a foreign country. According to sources cited by “Kyodo”, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s executive is speeding up plans in an attempt to revive business travel as soon as possible, which have mostly stalled due to the pandemic. The initiative would align Japan with the European Union, which is working on a substantially similar plan, as well as with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and with China. “Other countries are doing it, so it will be up to us to consider the issue too”, said yesterday the minister in charge of combating the pandemic, Taro Kono, who in the past had expressed reservations about the risk that a “vaccination passport” could introduce forms of discrimination against the unvaccinated. In an attempt to alleviate this order of reservations, the new electronic document will also certify negative results for antigenic swabs or PCR. The government of Japan, on the other hand, does not intend to use the vaccination passport within the national territory, for example to regulate access to restaurants and sporting events.
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