The state ultimately has the final say in whether or not to put NYC back under a full lockdown. On Friday, Cuomo announced that indoor dining would be banned indefinitely in NYC, restricting restaurants to only offering outdoor dining, takeout, and delivery. But we have to be preparing ourselves mentally and practically for that possibility.” “Hopefully we’re only talking about restrictions for a matter of weeks. “I think there’s the likelihood of more restrictions quite soon,” de Blasio said. In the Monday press conference, de Blasio called Cuomo’s statement in the Times “exactly right,” and said that the city was working closely with the state on determining further restrictions. Empty parks, quiet roads, with the only movements coming from the billboards in Times Square New York City was unrecognizable during the 2020 lockdowns prompted by COVID. Andrew Cuomo told the New York Times on Friday that “if you extrapolate out at this rate of growth, you could be looking at the shutdown of New York City within a month.” Over 5,400 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 in all of New York on Friday, according to state data.
The mayor characterized the last week of hospitalizations as “a tough stretch” for the city. The order stops short of discouraging people to leave their homes entirely instead, it states that people should continue to practice social distancing, and limit activities. However, for multiple days last week, over 200 likely COVID-19 patients were admitted per day, and the seven-day average of COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 people in NYC stood at 2.73 percent on Friday, crossing the city’s safety threshold of two percent. On December 12, 185 patients were admitted to NYC hospitals for suspected COVID-19 complications, falling slightly below the city’s stated safety threshold of 200 new patients admitted per day. “That is increasingly necessary to break the back of this second wave.” “At the current rate that we are going, we have to be ready now for a full shutdown, a pause like we had back at the end of the spring,” de Blasio said at a press conference on Monday. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio warned on Monday that the city could be headed back towards a full lockdown, restricting NYC restaurants and bars to takeout and delivery only, in light of an ongoing uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations. “If we implement that my nomination would be right after Christmas.” In preparation, the administration should designate zones that can be used. “I don’t say this with anything but sorrow, but I do think it is needed, we are going to need to do some kind of shutdown in the weeks ahead,” de Blasio said at his daily press conference. New York City must seriously consider a full lockdown in the event of a second wave. Update: On Tuesday, the mayor suggested that a full NYC lockdown may be announced after Christmas.
0 kommentar(er)
