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Cuomo announces New York City will disinfect every subway train every 24 hours in an 'unprecedented step'

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that, in an "unprecedented step," the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency in charge of the city's public transit, is going to clean every subway train every 24 hours.

overnight each night so that train cars can be cleaned and disinfected. The shutdowns will start on Wednesday, May 6. Increased cleanings will occur during daylight hours too, she said during the Saturday press briefing, adding that "some cars will get cleaned more than once" per day.A municipal worker, wearing special suit to protect against coronavirus, sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, on an empty street with a billboard reads "Stay home, take care of yourself and your loved ones" on April 12, 2020.

 

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Hope the disinfectant doesn’t carry side effects

They should have been cleaning the trains and the stations, but this is good.

This is great news for NYC! Wonder if this cleaning/disinfecting effort will happen to the subway stations too NYCMayor NYGovCuomo ?

NYC should have had the normal practice to disinfect every subway train every 24 hours. It is common logic to prevent diseases. You should not need a pandemic to figure that out.

Why weren't they doing this before?

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