New York to Honor Essential Workers with “Grand Parade”

New York, Jun 14 (EFE) .- The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, announced this Monday the celebration of a “great parade” in person, on July 7, dedicated to the essential workers who have been and are in front line of the fight against covid-19.
“The first comeback parade, the first real big parade in New York City, will be one to celebrate the heroes of fighting COVID-19, our healthcare heroes who were extraordinary and need to be remembered,” he said the mayor at his daily press conference.
New York suspended the spring of last year its traditional parades through the streets of the city, such as the San Patricio, the Pride or the Puerto Rican Heritage parades, which took place this weekend.
According to De Blasio, health workers, front-line workers, teachers, civil servants, transport system workers, employees of supermarkets and greengrocers, and home delivery workers, among others, will participate in the march.
“It is a day to celebrate and appreciate heroes who often go unnoticed,” said the mayor of the Big Apple.
According to official data, 69.9% of New Yorkers have received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine and the average positivity rate for the last seven days in the state is 0.41%.
“We are moving towards our reinvented future, post-covid-19, at an incredible rate. A year ago, it was impossible to think that today we would be at this point,” said, for his part, the governor of the state, Andrew Cuomo, who He insisted that New York is approaching its goal of vaccinating 70% of the population as soon as possible.
According to data provided by Cuomo, 60.2% of the state’s adult residents are vaccinated, a percentage that drops to 49.2% if all New Yorkers are taken into account.
Parallel to the advance of the vaccination campaign, New York has been lifting the restrictions imposed last year to prevent the spread.
De Blasio already advanced last April that the city would reopen completely on July 1 and that almost all the restrictions in force for that date would be eliminated.

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