New York sees first slight drop in intensive care unit patients in a day: governor

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FILE PHOTO: Ambulances are seen lined up outside The Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital in Central Park in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, New York, U.S., April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday that the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units across the state dropped in the last day, offering a glimmer of hope that the surge in critical care hospitalizations might be leveling off.

Cuomo said there were 17 fewer patients in the state’s intensive care units on Thursday than a day prior, a decrease in that figure “for the first time since we started this…journey,” Cuomo said at a news briefing.

“That’s the first time we’ve seen a negative number, so that’s good,” he said.

Reporting by Gabriella Borter; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama

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