With a big concert with numerous stars in Central Park on Saturday (from 5:00 p.m. local time; 11:00 p.m. CEST), New York is celebrating a kind of “rebirth” after the Corona crisis.
the essentials in brief
- In spring 2020, the metropolis was the epicenter of the corona pandemic in the USA and also experienced a sharp increase in the number of infections last winter.
Jennifer Hudson, Wyclef Jean, Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen will perform. Concert goers must provide proof of vaccination. The concert is intended to celebrate the successes in the fight against the corona pandemic and the extensive return to normalcy.
The metropolis of millions was the epicenter of the corona pandemic in the USA in spring 2020 and also experienced a sharp increase in the number of infections last winter. With strict measures and thanks to the progress made in the vaccination campaign, the situation was finally brought under control. Recently, however, as in the rest of the country, the number of infections has risen sharply again in the course of the spread of the delta variant.
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