Coronavirus.- New York City public schools will close this Thursday due to the increase in COVID-19 cases

MADRID, 18 (EUROPA PRESS)

The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has transferred that public schools will be closed from this Thursday due to the increase in cases of COVID-19, a disease that has already left more than 273,000 people infected in the city.

De Blasio asked New York parents last Friday to “prepare” for schools to stop face-to-face classes as close as last Monday. “Parents should have a plan for the rest of November,” he warned.

In parallel, he explained that the doors of schools would close when the rate of positive COVID-19 diagnostic tests reached 3 percent, something that happened this Wednesday.

“New York City has reached the average positivity threshold of 3 percent in seven days. Unfortunately, this means that public schools will be closed from tomorrow,” the mayor announced through his Twitter account, where has justified its decision that it is taken “as a precaution”. “We must fight against the second wave of COVID-19”, has riveted.

The state of New York released on Friday new restrictions implemented in the framework of the pandemic that seek to stop the spread of the disease. Among them, the closing of bars, restaurants and gyms at 10 pm and the limitation of social gatherings to a maximum of ten people stands out.

New York State was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic during the first wave of infections. Currently, it is the fifth most affected state and has more than 568,000 infections, including more than 34,000 deaths.

The United States is the country hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in the world, both in number of infections and in number of deaths from the disease.

The North American country has registered in recent days the worst case data of the entire pandemic and this Wednesday computes more than 161,000 positives, which accounts for 11.3 million infections in global terms. The fatalities from COVID-19 on US soil amount to 248,687.

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