New York He inaugurated this Saturday an art festival that aims to revitalize the cultural sector with hundreds of performances, and in the first of them he celebrated in situ the efforts of health workers who are contributing to the improvement of the figures of the pandemic by taking care of vaccinations.
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The Festival NY Pops Up kicked off at the huge Javits Center convention center in Manhattan, which was a campañana hospital months ago and is now a vaccination point, with the performance of jazz musician Jon Batiste, choreographer Ayodele Casel and opera singer Anthony Roth Costanzo.
The initiative, in which the authorities have collaborated, will take place free of charge until the beginning of September 300 artistic events from different disciplines to all corners of the state, including the Big Apple, where Broadway remains closed and cultural activities have been reopening under restrictions.
This first step towards normality in one of the sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 and most important for the economy of New York It has occurred precisely when the pandemic is subsiding from the post-Christmas season peak and immunizations continue to advance.
State Governor Andrew Cuomo said today that infections have returned to pre-levels. Thanksgiving Day and hospitalizations have dropped to mid-December figures, while 93% of the first doses received from the federal government have been administered.
“Our ability to beat COVID-19 is entirely dependent on our actions, and the reduction in positivity and hospitalizations after the holidays shows that New Yorkers continue to do the right thing to be safe. The numbers go down, the vaccines go up and that means that we progress towards the light at the end of the tunnel, ”he said in a statement.
In total, according to John Hopkins University, which makes an extensive count of the pandemic, in the state of New York there are accumulated 1.58 million cases and 46 thousand 700 deaths since the crisis began, but it has ceased to lead that data in the most affected country in the world as it has been improving.
With information from EFE
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