New York celebrates the fight against the pandemic with a major concert

New York. Despite the recent increase in the number of cases, tens of thousands of New Yorkers want to celebrate their city’s fight against the corona pandemic at a large open-air concert in Central Park on Saturday. Entitled We Love New York: The Homecoming Concert, Bruce Springsteen, The Killers and Andrea Bocelli are set to perform. Together with around 20 other acts, they want to celebrate the end of many restrictions during the corona pandemic.

Around 80 percent of the tickets for the concert, broadcast worldwide by CNN, were free, but visitors must at least prove their initial vaccination. Paul Simon, Jennifer Hudson and Patti Smith and Wyclef Jean are also among the acts announced for the five-hour event starting at 5 p.m. local time. On Thursday, Carlos Santana, also appearing on CBS, said the pandemic has brought out the best in many people. “That’s what we want to celebrate: light, spirit and soul.”

“Our Rebirth”

“This homecoming concert will be the sign of our rebirth,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced at the end of July when the program was presented. “New York City is back, you can see it, you can feel it and it’s time to celebrate on the Great Lawn where so many other great things have happened,” de Blasio said.

In New York, most of the restrictions due to the pandemic have been lifted, but since the beginning of the week a vaccination certificate has been mandatory for most interiors of restaurants, bars, theaters, cinemas and other leisure facilities. The east coast metropolis of New York was the epicenter of the corona pandemic in the USA last spring. In the meantime, the infection process has been under control for months.

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