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Updated March 12th, 2020 at 05:05 IST

Cleaning crew sanitizes bank in New Rochelle

Cleaning crews were hard at work Wednesday hoping to sanitize a bank in suburban New Rochelle, as state officials shuttered schools and houses of worship for two weeks in the New York City suburb.

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Cleaning crews were hard at work Wednesday hoping to sanitize a bank in suburban New Rochelle, as state officials shuttered schools and houses of worship for two weeks in the New York City suburb.

The National Guard was also called in to help with what appears to be the nation's biggest cluster of coronavirus cases, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Cuomo said he expected the cases of the coronavirus to go up "dramatically" in New York.

The World Health Organization, meanwhile, declared the virus a pandemic, or a serious, global outbreak, noting the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks.

Designating the crisis a pandemic is the WHO's way of putting countries on notice to take more aggressive action against the virus, which has infected over 120,000 people worldwide and killed nearly 4,400.

For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough.

For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.

The vast majority of people recover from the new virus.

According to the WHO, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

 

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Published March 12th, 2020 at 05:05 IST

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