Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that he believes New York City will likely meet the state’s seven metrics to begin easing restrictions for the first phase of reopening sometime in the first half of June.
“The first half of June is the first opportunity to relax anything,” the mayor said during his daily briefing.
According to the state, as of Monday, New York City has only met three of the seven criteria required to start easing restrictions.
“We clearly are making progress, there’s several we’ve met and on the others there’s been clear progress in the number of available hospital beds and number of ICU beds, those are two areas where we need to go farther, but we’re getting close to those goals, and I think there’s a point in the first half of June when we’ll meet those. The number of contact tracers we’ve made very clear we expect to hit that goal in the beginning of June — we’re confident we’re going to get there,” de Blasio said. “You can’t guarantee anything in life, but if you’re watching the trend lines both on our city indicators and state indicators, both will align in the first half of June.”
“We’ve gotta then make decisions on exactly which restrictions to loosen up, exactly how, and we have to be confident that when we’re doing it we can hold the line,” the mayor added. “There’s a real subtle balance that needs to be struck.”
The mayor also announced city employees who are working from home will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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But no matter what, for sure by the first week in November.
DiBlasio is a complete failure.
He announced that street cleaning would resume today. What a joke!
Heard from Brooklyn that almost no one moved their cars so the streets didn’t get cleaned and the ticketing agents didn’t give tickets so the city didn’t even make any money while the cleaning crews drove around at full pay accomplishing little. A total failure at everything!
Continue to pray that somehow some Minyanim in NYC shall already be able to operate this coming שבועות; Even more important than praying, learn up הלכות תפילה בציבור and make קבלה to never ever again be later to a Minjan.
Between the state and City, they seem to keep moving the goalposts. Hopefully, the shuls will be open for davening with minyanim for the yamim norahim…..there will be lots of unhappy yidden hearing kol nidre on their porch or driveway.
I am not a believer of conspiracies, but I believe we are being lied to. NYC probably meets all of the metrics but they are keeping us closed anyway. We are a city of over 8 million. According to the metric as long as we have less than 2 hospitalizations per 100k we pass. That means over 160 hospitalizations per day is allowed. Also, 30% of hospital beds and ICU beds need to be available. The number has to be declining yet the charts are stuck at 29%. A law suit would probably get the city open.