The school closure is a bitter defeat for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was one of the first to reopen the schools. But with a positive test rate of more than three percent, one thing is clear: the second wave is here. After a relatively quiet course in the summer, the number of infections last Friday exceeded 5,000 for the first time since May, and a total of more than 33,000 people died with or from Covid-19 in New York.
Tourism has also collapsed, and it is estimated that New York will not have recovered in this sector until 2024. After the US metropolis set a record for the tenth year in a row with 66.6 million visitors in 2019, the number for 2020 will probably be around 22.9 million, said the New York City Tourism Authority NYC & Company.
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