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Transit plan addresses the issue of homeless people on the subway.

After days of public squabbling over the problem of homeless people taking shelter on New York City’s subway during the pandemic, transit officials on Wednesday announced new rules meant to address the issue.

Riders will not be allowed to remain in a station for more than an hour, and large wheeled carts, like shopping carts, are banned from the system, officials said.

As long as the public health emergency continues, riders will also not be allowed to remain on a train or platform after an announcement that a train is being taken out of service.

“I want to be clear the status quo has been completely unacceptable,” said Sarah Feinberg, the interim president of New York City Transit, which operates the subway and buses. “It’s my job to make sure everyone who rides our system feels safe and secure, and that our work force feels safe and secure.”

With the subway carrying fewer than 10 percent of its usual riders and running fewer trains, the number of homeless people who are effectively living on the subway has come into sharper focus in the past two months.

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Daily deaths in New York held steady at 330.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo reported on Wednesday that 330 more people had died of the coronavirus in New York.

The one-day death toll was less than half of those the state was recording earlier in April, when there were nearly 800 virus-related deaths a day. But the fatality figures have remained stubbornly steady this week, with 337 deaths reported on Monday and 335 reported on Tuesday.