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“I tell my friends in the Hasidic community: the Hebrew faith teaches us ‘pikuach nefesh’, which means ‘saving lives,'” Andrew Cuomo said at a press conference, reiterating to Orthodox Jews that this weekend celebrate a holiday. , who should not attend religious ceremonies with more than 10 people.
According to the governor, “Hebrew teachings” say that non-participation in religious celebrations can “be excused for reasons of health, life and safety.”
Andrew Cuomo’s remarks come after it was announced Saturday that Two federal judges rejected complaints from various religious groups against measures imposed by the New York State Governor, limiting concentrations in places of worship in areas with covid-19 outbreaks, mainly affecting Orthodox Jewish communities.
The complainants alleged that measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in areas of New York experiencing large outbreaks violate the rights of the first amendment to the United States Constitution, freedom of religion.
The rules limit religious ceremonies within the worship space to 10 people in the “red zones”, the most affected by the pandemic, which include areas where ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities are concentrated, and also force the closure of schools and some non-commercial ones. essential.
In the so-called “orange zones”, which surround the “red zones”, religious gatherings are limited to 25 people.
The restrictions apply in six areas of New York City, in addition to Rockland and Orange counties and parts of Binghamton.
According to data released today by Andrew Cuomo, the rate of contagion by the new coronavirus in “red and orange areas” is 5.7%, while in New York the average is 1.1% and in the state, excluding outbreak zones, it is 0.84%.
The governor added that there were five more deaths from COVID-19 in New York on Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths to 25,574, the highest number statewide in the United States.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (214,388) and also with the most confirmed cases of infection (more than 7.7 million).
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than one million seventy-four thousand deaths and more than 37.2 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,080 people died from 86,664 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the General Health Directorate.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
