New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that he spoke with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the city’s urgent need for medical supplies to curb the spread of the coronavirus. “I spoke to President Trump and Vice President Pence last night in detail and I’m glad we had the […]

Hagaon HaRav Elya Brudny recorded this video message on Sunday for the volunteers of Flatbush Hatzolah. These incredible words of Chizuk are worth watching how this Gadol thanks our Hatzolah heroes on the front lines during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

New York’s governor said Sunday that he was exasperated that people are still ignoring his social distancing orders, saying he spent part of the previous day watching people clustering in groups and acting like it was just another nice spring day. “There is a density level in New York City that is wholly inappropriate. You […]

President Donald Trump announced Sunday he has activated the National Guard in New York, California and Washington, the state’s hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak. Trump has already approved disaster declarations for New York and Washington and said the declaration for California should be approved soon. The president announced that the missions will be federally […]

New York City’s mayor was preparing to order his city behind closed doors in an attempt to slow a pandemic that has swept across the globe and threatened to make the city of 8.5 million one of the world’s biggest coronavirus hot spots, as officials worldwide warned of a critical shortage of medical supplies. Mayor […]

The leading physician in Kiryas Yoel, Dr. Zelenko, released a public video a short while ago, where he reported some good news. He says the drug he has been giving coronavirus patients is seeing good results, with no one hospitalized or ending up on a respirator. The drug was announced by President Trump last week […]

New York City was hit by the nation’s largest coronavirus jail outbreak to date this week, with at least 38 people testing positive at the notorious Rikers Island complex and nearby facilities — more than half of them incarcerated men, the board that oversees the city’s jail system said Saturday. Another inmate, meanwhile, became the first in the country to test positive in a federal jail. In a letter to New York’s criminal justice leaders, Board of Correction interim chairwoman Jacqueline Sherman described a jail system in crisis. She said in the last week, board members learned that 12 Department of Correction employees, five Correctional Health Services employees, and 21 people in custody at Rikers and city jails had tested positive for the coronavirus.

At least five Lakewood residents are in critical condition from coronavirus, YWN has learned. There are a few on respirators, and multiple other victims in the ICU in serious condition. Please say Tehillim for Avrohom Levi ben Sara. Additional names will be added when they become available to us.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state is scouring the globe for medical supplies and scouting temporary hospital locations in and around New York City. Flights were briefly suspended to New York City-area airports because of staffing issues after an air-traffic control worker tested positive for coronavirus. The number of confirmed cases statewide soared above 11,000. More on the latest coronavirus developments Saturday in New York: ___ HOSPITAL BEDS & SUPPLIES New York was scouring the globe for desperately needed medical supplies and scouting temporary hospital locations in New York City and its suburbs as confirmed coronavirus cases soared above 11,000 statewide, Cuomo said Saturday.

The leading physician in Kiryas Yoel, Dr. Zelenko, released a video where he says that he is seeing a tremendous positive results from the drug that President Trump announced last week “Hydroxychloroquine” to be used to treat COVID-19 victims. WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW STAY UPDATED WITH BREAKING UPDATES FROM YWN VIA WHATSAPP – SIGN UP NOW Just click on this link, and you will be placed into a group.