12 Mar 2020

Covid-19: New York suburb put into lockdown

From Morning Report, 6:45 am on 12 March 2020

The National Guard have been suburb of New York City which has seen an outbreak of coronavirus.

New Rochelle has had 108 cases of coronavirus making it the largest cluster of coronavirus cases in the United States.

New Rochelle makes up a majority of the state's 173 coronavirus cases and has double the number of cases as New York City.

New Zealander Martyn Clarkson is living about three kilometres from the centre of the containment zone in New Rochelle.

He speaks to Susie Ferguson.

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