New York City will fully reopen starting July 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday, NBC reported.
“We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters, full strength,” de Blasio said in announcing the date on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
It’s the first time the city will be fully reopened in more than a year. The first shutdown began March 2020 when the city became the U.S. epicenter in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Restaurants, gyms, shops, hair salons and arenas will open at full capacity. Smaller theaters could reopen over the summer and Broadway is on track for opening by September. Schools will be back at “full strength” in the fall.
New York City has recorded 923,953 coronavirus cases and 32,461 virus-related deaths as of Wednesday.
Also of Wednesday, more than 6 million doses of Covid vaccines have been administered in the city, and about 36% of its adult population is fully vaccinated, according to city data. More than half the city’s adult population has received at least one dose.
“What we’re seeing is that people have gotten vaccinated at extraordinary numbers,” de Blasio said. “This is going to be the summer of New York City. I think people are going to flock to New York City because they want to live again.”
It wasn’t immediately clear whether mask mandates will stay in place through the summer.
Great news.
But sadly this means that things are really, really looking bad for the city.
These guys never do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do.
IF WE ALL THINK INDIA AND TURKEY IS A ONE OFF…THINK AGAIN. ISRAEL SAYS EVIDENCE IS EMERGING THAT THE VARIANTS MAY BE SURVIVING THE CURRENT VACCINES, EVEN AFTER 2 DOSES C”V. TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE AS DATA HAS YET TO EMERGE. PEOPLE ARE GETTING SICK EVEN IN COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN VACCINATED FULLY 25/50%. MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING MUST BE MAINTAINED
HAVE A NICE DAY FOLKS
You have a tendency to comment entirely in uppercase, and it’s annoying.
With that out of the way, it is precisely because of your concern—vaccine resistant COVID-19 variants—that NY isn’t opening today. We are waiting until July to open the city, which is in two months from now, so we can determine the risk presented by those variants.
If you struggle to understand that which I write, I recommend that you copy my comment, and paste it someplace where you can convert it to uppercase; you seem to have an easier time understanding words when they are written in uppercase.