Coronavirus patient is wheeled out of a Comfort Inn in Manhattan

Medical professionals were seen responding on Wednesday to a hotel in New York City that’s housing individuals who have tested positive for the coronavirus.   

Photos showed first responders arriving to a Comfort Inn in Manhattan wearing personal protective equipment. 

Crews were seen entering the building at 548 West 48th Street as one hotel housing patients with a stretcher and emerging a short time later with a patient. 

The patient was seen being wheeled out of the Comfort Inn on the stretcher as an ambulance prepared to take him to a local hospital. 

Earlier this week, New York City’s hospitals began discharging patients who are suffering from the virus and sent them to New York’s empty hotels to quarantine. 

  

Medical professionals were seen responding on Wednesday to a hotel in New York City that’s housing individuals who have tested positive for the coronavirus. A patient was transported from the hotel to a local hospital 

Photos showed first responders arriving to a Comfort Inn in Manhattan wearing personal protective equipment as they went inside

Medical crews are seen wheeling the patient out of the hotel on Wednesday

The man is seen being placed into the back of a waiting ambulance on Wednesday  

Health+Hospital spokesman Christopher Miller told the New York Post on Monday: ‘We have discharged patients who are unable to go home to hotels. This allows them to quarantine without potentially infecting other family members.’ 

Mayor Bill de Blasio also announced on Saturday that hotels in the Big Apple will be housing at least 6,000 homeless people in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. 

‘By Monday, April 20, we will have 6,000 homeless people in our shelter system who were in other settings, will now be in hotel settings. 

‘So, 6,000 single New Yorkers, meaning single adults, will be in hotels, not traditional homeless shelters. That’s about one-third of the single clients of our overall shelter system moved into hotel settings,’ de Blasio said. 

‘We are doing that because we think that is the right balance to strike as we ensure that people get what they need to be safe.’ 

Police, fire (pictured) and ambulances were called to the scene on Wednesday 

A first responder is seen wearing personal protective equipment from his head to his feet while responding to the scene 

De Blasio said that in order to maintain social distancing individuals at homeless shelters have been moved to hotels across the city.

‘Where it’s clear to our Department of Social Services and our Department of Homeless Services that social distancing cannot be achieved properly, a number of those clients will be moved to hotels to achieve the balance, to make sure there is the proper social distancing. 

‘So, we will use those hotels aggressively as a tool to support homeless individuals, to strike the right balance in our shelters to make sure people who need to be isolated are isolated,’ the mayor said. 

The city is spending about $200 per night to rent hotel rooms for homeless people with COVID-19 symptoms can be isolated.  

In New York City alone, there are more than 111,000 coronavirus cases with more than 6,800 deaths

There are more than 645,000 confirmed cases in the US with more than 28,000 deaths 

Authorities said on Wednesday that at least 27 homeless people among the 460 confirmed to have COVID-19 have died. 

In New York City alone, there are more than 111,000 coronavirus cases with more than 6,800 deaths. 

New York Gov Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that hospitalizations from the outbreak are leveling off. 

New York recorded 752 deaths Tuesday, for a total of more than 11,000 in just over a month.

Those figures don’t include roughly 4,000 other deaths in New York City during the outbreak that city officials say were probably caused by the virus, but haven’t been confirmed by a lab test.

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