New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks throughout the everyday media instruction at the Office of the Governor of the State of New York on June 12, 2020 in New York City.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated Wednesday that New York City is on track to resume some in-store retail, beauty parlor and choose office with health preventative measures on Monday as the coronavirus break out continues to alleviate.
“I hope people learn from what we have accomplished here in New York,” Cuomo stated at his everyday press instruction. “I hope people around the country look at New York and say, ‘how did they do that? How did they go from the worst situation in terms of transmission to the best? How did they do that?'”
New York City is presently in stage among the state’s resuming strategy, which enables curbside retail pickup and drop off and the resumption of building and production tasks. The stage 2 resuming will permit in-store retail organisations to open at no greater than 50% optimum tenancy, according to the state’s resuming standards.
Hair beauty salons and barber stores in New York City will likewise be enabled to resume at no greater than 50% optimum tenancy. The order just uses to hair services and does not use to tattoo parlors, nail beauty salons or any other individual care services or activities, according to state standards.
Office areas for organisations in the expert services, not-for-profit, innovation, administrative assistance and college administration markets will be enabled to resume at decreased capability, together with other security preventative measures.
“New York has climbed the mountain, and it was the highest mountain in the state of New York,” Cuomo stated. “I’m going to declare the Covid mountain the highest mountain in the state of New York. It’s not really a mountain because it doesn’t exist, but it’s a mountain to me and it’s a mountain to many people.”
The stage 2 resuming order does not enable some organisations, like shopping malls, health clubs or indoor dining establishments and bars to resume yet, which will be enabled to return in stage 3. However, dining establishments will be enabled to use outside seating in stage 2.
‘A historic error’
Even as New York rolls back its own constraints, Cuomo voiced issue over other states that are resuming quickly and seeing boosts in Covid-19 cases. He stated the state is now worried about individuals going to New York from locations with increased cases in current weeks.
“If those states are going up, they could spread the virus to New York. They have a higher rate of infection than New York,” Cuomo stated. “What happens when those people get on planes and fly to New York? That’s how we got here in the first place, right? People landing at our airports.”
Cuomo stated that the federal government has actually made a “historical mistake” on its handling of the crisis and how it has actually enabled states to resume too rapidly. He indicated increasing hospitalizations in states like Florida and Arizona as indications the Covid-19 break out is aggravating in other parts of the country.
“Hospitalizations are going up. The number of people going into hospitals is going up,” he stated. “How do you explain that? Are they pretending to be sick? Are they not really sick?”
Cuomo stated hospitalizations in New York City have actually decreased for weeks and the positivity rate for Covid-19 tests was up to 1.4% on Wednesday, below a high of 57% reported on April 1.
Overall, New York state reported a positivity rate of less than 1% out of almost 60,000 tests performed on Tuesday, amongst the most affordable in the country.
— CNBC’s Jasmine Kim added to this report.
