The city of NY plans to re-close schools and nonessential businesses in nine Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods, where the cases of coronavirus They have registered a strong increase in the last two weeks, announced this Sunday the mayor, Bill de Blasio.(You may be interested in: More questions than answers about the Donald Trump contagion).
“Today, unfortunately, is not a day of celebration”, said the mayor when announcing that he wants to reconfine those neighborhoods as of Wednesday and that he awaits the endorsement of the state governor, Andrew Cuomo.
He added: “We are providing these areas with additional resources, but when new information is presented to us we must act. We will not risk the progress we have made.(Read also: Criticism of Donald Trump for going out to greet his followers).
The proposal proposes, among other things, that restaurants can only offer take-out food and home delivery and that service on terraces and in indoor dining rooms be canceled.
In addition, it also recommends that schools and non-essential businesses remain closed, at least two weeks and that if in this period the rate of positives in the covid-19 tests does not drop below 3%, that the closure continues for another two weeks.(You may be interested in: Convalescent plasma could reduce the severity of covid-19).
If the measure is approved, it will be the biggest setback in the lack of refinement of this metropolis, which had largely controlled the pandemic after an initial catastrophic outbreak. Almost 24,000 people have died in the city from the virus.
Several of the nine neighborhoods mentioned have large populations of Orthodox Jews, among which the virus has spread rapidly in recent weeks.
The increase in infections coincided with the high Jewish holidays, the holiest days on the Jewish calendar, which culminated last Monday with Yom Kippur.(See also: The messages of Kim Jong-un and other leaders to Trump after being infected).
De Blasio said he intended to “rewind” the reopening of the city in the worst affected areas.
AFP and EFE
– .
