New York City’s financial crisis intensifies as 400 emergency medical workers are laid off
Novel coronavirus pneumonia,
overseas 20, August, according to NBC, the New York municipal government’s financial crisis intensified during the new crown pneumonia outbreak. The city plans to lay off 400 first-aid medical personnel. < p > < p > bill NEIDHARDT, press secretary of New York City Mayor Bai Sihao, said on the 19th that the city hall’s decision was a last resort. “We have been working with relevant organizations to find possible ways to avoid layoffs, but unfortunately, all institutions will face layoffs.”. Bai Sihao said that the city is expected to lay off more than 20000 people. According to his explanation, since the outbreak of the epidemic, the New York City Hall has been suffering from a serious financial crisis due to the reduction of funds, the decrease of tax revenue caused by the loss of population, and the severe damage to the tourism industry. The novel coronavirus pneumonia is now approaching second waves of new pneumonia, and two large-scale cases have been reported by Broolyn recently. The layoffs are now putting the people of New York in a dangerous position,
Oren Barzilay, director of the emergency medical service center at New York fire station, Bazile said. “Yesterday, our medical staff were hailed as heroes of rescuing the wounded. Today, the government is dismissing us like useless things. I don’t believe the people of New York will agree with us.” By August 20th, novel coronavirus pneumonia had been reported in New York, which killed more than 23000 people. At the peak of the epidemic, one out of every four emergency medical staff is sick at home. (overseas website / Li Fang internship / Sun Yue)
