Coronavirus Update 4-17-20
- Mayor de Blasio announces changes to 311 after 1010 WINS reporter Juliet Papa raised a red flag
- Mayor announces more testing sites in hard hit neighborhoods
- Large events in NYC including Puerto Rican, Israeli and Pride Day parades are cancelled
- NYS: 2,000 new Covid-19 cases still, per day; 630 deaths yesterday; 1 in 5 New Yorkers dying are in nursing homes; Gov issues executive order requiring nursing homes to let residents and their families know about any cases of the virus
- Governor Cuomo rips President Trump after he ripped the Governor on twitter during Cuomo’s news conference
- President Trump tweets support for people in several states protesting stay at home orders
- Nurses protest in the Bronx over order to get a doctor’s note if they call out sick
- In New Jersey, Governor Murphy announces the death toll is now five times more than the number of New Jerseyeans who died on 9/11
- Johnny Depp decides the stay at home time is the right time to join Instagram
- Dr Anthony Fauci gets is own beer
Includes reports from 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa, Al Jones & Samantha Liebman as well as ABC’s Karen Travers and AP Correspondent Oscar Wells-Gabriel