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Police cases rise.

The police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, said 98 people in the New York Police Department, including 70 uniformed officers, had tested positive for the coronavirus. Three people have been hospitalized, and one was discharged on Sunday, he said at a news conference on Sunday.
Police officials do not believe the members of the department are contracting the virus through police work, but that officers and civilian workers are contracting it from sick family members, he said. More officers were also getting tested, he added.
As society contracts this disease, so do we, he said.
But two police officials said that the confirmed cases were just a fraction of the overall problem. Overall, more than 2,000 police officers and civilian aides have called out sick with flulike symptoms, according to the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential police medical records.

Commissioner Shea would not give specific numbers but said the rate at which officers were calling out sick since Tuesday is approaching double the normal rate. But he said the department had not been hindered in carrying out its duties, including its new role enforcing social distancing at grocery stores, parks and other public places.
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We are not at the point where were close to going to 12-hour tours, he said. But what we are doing is planning for all eventualities and moving people from units that are less-important right now to be ready for any and all eventualities. So I think we are in a good place still and the planning is literally ongoing hour by hour.
New Jersey has nearly 2,000 confirmed cases.

Two additional drive-through testing facilities will open on Monday morning one at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel and the second at Kean University in Union.
Gov. Philip D. Murphy issued an executive order on Saturday closing nonessential businesses and asking all residents to stay home. Theres too many people still not paying attention to this, Mr. Murphy said. Weve about had it.
The states health commissioner, Judith Persichilli, said there was a shortage of blood, and she urged donors to make an appointment. Its one concrete way we can all roll up our sleeves and help, she said.

Students must move after a virus-related death.
Hundreds of students and young professionals at a residential building in Upper Manhattan have been ordered to move after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus and a resident died from the illness.
The International House New York, which offers dormitory-style living with shared bathrooms and lounges, told all residents in its South Building that they must vacate by Friday, sending students, many of them new to the United States and with little means, scrambling to find new housing.
There are between 300 to 500 residents in the South Building, many of whom attend Columbia University. The order came after a staff member tested positive last week for the coronavirus.
Early Sunday, management at the International House, also known as the I-House, announced that a resident with the virus had died, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
It is with tremendous sadness that I write to inform you that an I-House resident has passed away from complications from the Covid-19 virus, the management wrote to residents. We are sharing this heartbreaking news, which we just learned a few hours ago, because of the need to get this information to our community immediately during the extremely difficult time.
Management at the International House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Students on Sunday said they were frantically packing their belongings and relying on friends to help find new housing. They said officials at the International House told them that the states newly announced moratorium on evictions did not apply because the residents signed a contract stating the International House is not a traditional landlord.
Students also said the International House had disclosed no information about the people who tested positive or whether they had contact with other people.

Im so uncertain because there are more people here who have this virus, said a 26-year-old graduate student at Columbia University who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. People here are in a difficult economic situation.
The student was moving on Sunday into an apartment in Manhattan with three friends.
Its getting worse, Mayor de Blasio says.

New York Citys health care system is straining under the deluge of coronavirus cases, and it is getting worse Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday morning.
April is going to be worse than March, the mayor said on NBCs Meet the Press. And I fear May will be worse than April.
As of Sunday evening, 10,764 people in New York City had tested positive for the coronavirus, and 99 had died from complications related to it, city officials said. At least 1,800 people are hospitalized, and 450 of those patients are in the ICU.
In New York State, 61,401 people had been tested for the virus as of Sunday morning, including 26,389 in New York City. Of the fatalities in the city linked to the coronavirus as of Sunday morning, none of the patients were younger than 45 years old, and about two-thirds were men, city officials said.
Later, at a news conference, Mr. de Blasio said, We are now in New York City the epicenter of this crisis in the United States of America.

I am not happy to tell you that; youre not happy to hear it, he said.
Hours after Mr. Cuomo lashed out at arrogant and insensitive people who crowded into parks, Mr. de Blasio and Commissioner Shea took a more genteel tone in describing the kind of limited use of open space they hoped to see.
You can go to the park but only for a limited amount of time, the mayor said. Families can stay together but dont mix with other families. Mr. de Blasio said the police would break up anything that looks like the beginning of a gathering.
At one point, Mr. de Blasio lamented, Theres no more gatherings. Theres no more events. Theres no more big barbecues. All that is gone for now."
Mr. de Blasio also warned that while playgrounds will remain open, they arent regularly disinfected. Parents must take full responsibility for keeping their child healthy and away from other children, the mayor said.
If the rules are not followed this week, the mayor said he would consider closing the playgrounds.
And to help health care professionals get to work, the mayor said the city will issue 10,000 parking permits for them, starting on Monday.
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