NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – Despite rising corona numbers, public primary schools in the US east coast metropolis of New York should be allowed to reopen soon. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sunday that the plan would be implemented from December 7th. Following criticism, the metropolis is thus abandoning its self-set threshold of three percent positive corona tests, from which schools should actually remain closed. Educational institutions for older children remain closed for the time being.
De Blasio had only announced in the middle of the month that the schools would be closed until further notice because the limit was exceeded, but now apparently gave in to pressure from critics. These had bothered, among other things, that schools had to close, but restaurants for indoor consumption did not.
New York had become the epicenter of the pandemic in the USA in the spring and had to close all schools in mid-March. Over the summer, the infection rate had stabilized again, but reopening had been postponed again and again. The first schools could not be reopened until the end of September. Most recently, however, the Covid 19 situation had tightened again./scb/DP/mis
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