Worried about the outbreak of the pandemic in many American regions, the mayor of New York announced on Wednesday the “postponement” of the reopening of the dining rooms, which was supposed to start on July 6.
“Now is not the time to start dining out,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio at a media availability. “We are looking at what is happening in other parts of the country (…) and we are all concerned that eating inside a restaurant has become a problem.”
Report on Broadway
He has given no new possible date for the resumption of this key aspect of life and tourism in the American economic capital, where all places of entertainment remain closed. Broadway theaters will not reopen until January 2021.
“It is not a rule forever, it is a postponement,” he said. “We have to wait until we have proof that we can do it safely.”
The New York metropolis, which was at the heart of the epidemic in the United States for a long time and recorded 22,000 deaths from the coronavirus, has since seen the epidemic decline sharply.
She has been engaged since early June in a cautious deconfinement, and fears that the epidemic will return like a boomerang with the outbreak of cases in the southern and western states of the country.
Monday, only 40 people were hospitalized in New York because of coronavirus, and only 1% of those tested were positive, two key indicators whose numbers have continued to improve, while tests are now available everywhere.
A terrace
The restaurants were able to reopen on the terrace on June 22, with measures of social distancing, even if New Yorkers do not generally jostle there. Hairdressers also reopened on the 22nd, as did many stores, with the compulsory wearing of the mask and reduced capacities.
As for the municipal beaches, especially those very busy Coney Island or the Rockaways, where we could only walk so far, they reopened for swimming on Wednesday.
The mayor has also announced that he will reopen by August 1 15 municipal swimming pools, usually very popular in the dampness of New York summers.
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