NY. New York City is poised to re-close schools and non-essential businesses in nine Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods, where coronavirus cases have seen a sharp increase in the last two weeks, announced yesterday, October 4, the mayor, Bill de Blasio.
The mayor said he wants to reconfine those neighborhoods starting Wednesday and is waiting for the endorsement of the state governor, Andrew Cuomo.
If the measure is approved, it will be the first time that this metropolis – which had largely controlled the pandemic after an initial catastrophic outbreak – has been forced to reverse the lack of focus. Almost 24,000 people have died in the city from the virus.
Freedom without masks
Thousands of Germans who oppose sanitary measures due to the coronavirus pandemic protested yesterday, October 4, in Constance, near the border with Switzerland.
Organizers canceled a march, but held a rally near the shores of Lake Constance, with fewer than the 20,000 people who had participated in earlier demonstrations in Berlin.
Most of the attendees did not wear protective masks, but they respected a distance of 1.5 meters as requested by the authorities, and some waved banners that read: “Freedom!”
Freedom despite the dangerous virus.
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