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As of January 6, 2023, over one third of New York City neighborhoods had COVID-19 positivity rates in excess of 20% and four out of five neighborhoods exceeded 15%, largely due to the highly infectious XBB.1.5 variant. This particular variant accounted for 80.8% of the city's cases, compared to the projected U.S. prevalence of 61%. [173]
The decision to shut down is ultimately up to Gov. Cuomo, but de Blasio over the past two days has emphasized the need to institute one because of stubbornly high COVID-19 transmission rates that ...
The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. [9] [10] Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia. [1]
This caught some by surprise since Iowa was struggling (compared to other states) to distribute coronavirus vaccines in early February. [117] On February 26, Arkansas fully repealed all mandates except for a mask mandate, which the governor said would likely be repealed at the end of March. Arkansas continues to make recommendations. [118]
Gov. Cuomo on Monday ordered a swift shutdown of schools in nine Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods that have seen troubling spikes in COVID-19 infection rates, though restaurants, houses of ...
Gov. Cuomo said Saturday that New York City should “seriously consider” keeping public schools open even if the positive rate on coronavirus tests citywide hits 3% as expected in coming days ...
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The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of New York during the pandemic was confirmed on March 1, 2020, [2] and the state quickly became an epicenter of the pandemic, with a record 12,274 new cases reported on April 4 and approximately 29,000 more deaths reported for the month of April than the same month in 2019. [7]