Just before Christmas, while New York was waiting for the return of its tourists, there is panic in the famous Broadway theater and musical district where the cancellations of performances are increasing, because of positive cases within the troops.
People line up for rapid tests for Covid-19 on a street in New York on December 17, 2021.
Last victim Friday evening, the next four shows of the “Rockettes” at Radio City Music Hall have been canceled due to the “increasing difficulties of the pandemic”, according to the production.
As for the musical “Hamilton”, it was canceled Thursday evening: “We really came by plane for a day only to see +Hamilton”, protested annoyed in front of AFPTV Dara and Myron Abston, a couple from Michigan.
And on Saturday night, at Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the famous entertainment show “Saturday Night Live” announced that it would be shot without an audience and with a reduced crew.
Brooklyn restaurants are closing one after another due to an outbreak of contamination, the lines to get tested are getting longer: New York fears to relive the nightmare of 2020, when the city was the world’s epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Saturday evening, the State of New York, the fourth most populous in the country with some 20 million inhabitants, announced for the second consecutive day a record of positive cases for the coronavirus, with nearly 22,000 contaminations.
In Brooklyn, since the end of the week, in the fashionable district of Greenpoint, more than a dozen bars and restaurants have temporarily lowered the curtain after sudden cases among their employees or their customers.
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