Man wearing coronavirus face mask is found passed out on packed New York pavement
The incident in Queens, New York, not surprisingly raised concerns because he was wearing a face maskParamedics treating the man on the sidewalk before taking him to hospital
NYPD officers responded to the Flushing neighborhood at 1.28pm yesterday after the man passed out on Main Street and hit his head on the sidewalk, a police source toldHe was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital and was expected to survive, although his current condition and symptoms are not known.One is a female medical worker in Manhattan who had recently returned from Iran which is experiencing a major outbreak.
The other is a man in his 50s who lives in Westchester but works in Manhattan and apparently caught it in his community. The video filmed in from Queens the scene shows the unidentified young man unconscious on the sidewalk with bystanders crowding around him until an ambulance arrives and takes him to hospital.MOST READ IN NEWS‘Killer dad yanked son's teeth out with pliers & fatally raped him with stick’PicturedMoment ER star pulls replica gun before being killed by copsThe latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed 108 confirmed and presumed cases in the United States.
That tally consists of 60 reported by public health authorities in 12 states plus 48 among people repatriated from abroad, most of them from an outbreak aboard the BritishThe number of US cases beyond the repatriated patients has mushroomed from just 15 reported by the CDC on Friday, as the first handful of infections believed to have emerged from community transmission were detected in the Pacific Northwest.
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