New York state will hire thousands of people to trace the contacts of people who test positive for the coronavirus and halt early-hour New York City subway service to disinfect the trains every day, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday.
Cuomo announced the initiatives as the state hardest hit by the outbreak looks to ease restrictions on social life and businesses with a massive public transport system that is clean and safe for riders and transit workers.
“This is a daunting challenge,” Cuomo told a daily briefing. “The entire public transport system in downstate New York will be disinfected every 24 hours.” Health experts say that contact tracing is critical to isolating potentially contagious people in order to limit further outbreaks.
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