New York City accumulates nearly 24,000 deaths from Covid-19
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New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio announced today that he plans to re-close schools and non-essential businesses in nine Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods, where coronavirus cases have seen a sharp increase in the past two weeks.
“Today, unfortunately, is not a day of celebration,” said De Blasio, announcing that he wants to reconfine those neighborhoods as of Wednesday and that he awaits the endorsement of the state governor, Andrew Cuomo.
The increase in cases coincides with the High Jewish Holidays, the holiest days on the Jewish calendar, which culminated last Monday with Yom Kippur, and several of the neighborhoods the mayor intends to reconfine have large populations of Orthodox Jews.
The city is also monitoring 11 additional neighborhoods, which De Blasio described as a “real concern,” quoted by the AFP news agency.
New York City, the global epicenter of the pandemic during late March, April, May and June, was recently touted by officials for low testing and infection rates among major cities in the United States.
Since the start of the pandemic, New York accumulates almost 24,000 deaths from Covid-19
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